[R-sig-eco] error capture

[Kingsford Jones]

FAQ 7.32 indicates why 'tryCatch' may be preferable to 'try' for this
sort of thing:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-capture-or-ignore-errors-in-a-long-simulation_003f


Kingsford Jones

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Tim Reid <treid at utas.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I am currently running some R code bootstrapping some data and
>  running GLMs on the sampled data sets. Occasionally the data sets
>  that are sampled cause errors in the GLM (usually with the message
>  "Error in solve.default(as.matrix(fit$hessian)) "). Currently, if
>  this occurs, the program stops and exits. I would like to know if
>  there is a way I can instead of having the program terminate, to get
>  the program to step through that problem and continue further on in
>  the program (i.e. getting it to re-sample the data again).
>
>  Any help would be much appreciated,
>  tim.
>
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