eric <ericstrom <at> aol.com> writes:
>
> I am calling the uniroot function from inside another function using these
> lines (last two lines of the function) :
>
> d <- uniroot(k, c(.001, 250), tol=.05)
> return(d$root)
>
> The problem is that on occasion there's a problem with the values I'm
> passing to uniroot. In those instances uniroot stops and sends a message
> that it can't calculate the root because f.upper * f.lower is greater than
> zero. All I'd like to do in those cases is be able to set the return value
> of my calling function "return(d$root)" to .0001. But I'm not sure how to
> pull that off. I tried a few modifications to uniroot but so far no luck.
>
Do not modify uniroot(). Use 'try' or 'tryCatch', for example
e <- try( d <- uniroot(k, c(.001, 250), tol=.05), silent = TRUE )
if (class(e) == "try-error") {
return(0.0001)
} else {
return(d$root)
}
--Hans Werner
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