[R] Error trapping in R

[Bernard McGarvey]

Thanks - the try() approach is exactly what I need.



Lion Bernard McGarvey

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Retired (Lilly Engineering Fellow).



> On February 27, 2019 at 4:39 PM Robert Knight <bobby.knight using gmail.com> wrote:
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>     Some use try blocks, like found in other languages.  Put the code you want to try inside the block.
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>     https://www.robertknight.io/blog/try-blocks-in-r-for-error-handling/ contains a quick example.  The example doesn’t raise exceptions or anything, it just contains it for you so the script keeps going.  I like handling errors with if statements inside of try blocks.
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>     Robert
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>     On Feb 27, 2019, at 2:55 PM, Bernard Comcast < mcgarvey.bernard using comcast.net mailto:mcgarvey.bernard using comcast.net > wrote:
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>         > >         What is the recommended way to trap errors in R? My main need is to be able to trap an error and then skip a section of code if an error has occurred. In VB for Excel I used the “On Error goto  .....” construct to do this.
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> >         Bernard
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