Do you want to cause an error or catch one? Try removing the try() and see
if that helps.

This has nothing to do with RNetCDF you could as easily have caught another
more basic error.

On Thursday, December 6, 2012, Jannis wrote:

> Hi Pascal,
>
> Well, as i see it, this is no error, just a simple message printed to the
> screen claiming that it is an error. All the mechanisms in R to handle
> errors (e.g a stop of code execution etc) are, however, not initiated.
>
>
> Cheers
> Jannis
>
> On 06.12.2012 02:53, Pascal Oettli wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I try your example, I simply get an error:
>>
>>  > library(RNetCDF)
>>  > con <- create.nc('test.nc')
>>  > test <- try(var.get.nc(con, 'dummy'))
>> Error : NetCDF: Variable not found
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pascal
>>
>>
>> Le 05/12/2012 22:08, Jannis a écrit :
>>
>>> Dear R community,
>>>
>>>
>>> I quite frequently run into errors while using the RNetCDF package which
>>> do not seem to be recognised as normal R errors and, hence, do not stop
>>> the execution of the code making it hard to debug the code.
>>>
>>> Consider, for example:
>>>
>>> library(RNetCDF)
>>> con <- create.nc('test.nc')
>>> test <- try(var.get.nc(con, 'dummy'))
>>>
>>>
>>> In this case, some sort of error message is printed to the screen, but R
>>> does not recognise this as an error. Is there any way to solve this?
>>>
>>> I contacted the author of the package but it seems that there will be no
>>> solution from that side.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any Ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Jannis
>>>
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