On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, McGehee, Robert wrote:
> It sounds like you want `try` with the argument `silent = TRUE`. This
> will allow you to keep running your program without errors. If you want
> to check if the line had an error, you can error control by seeing if
> the class of the resulting object is "try-error". For example, let's say
> I wanted to make an error-proof `plus` function, such that trying "a" +
> 2 would result in NA instead of an error.
>
> newPlus <- function(x, y) {
> answer <- try(x + y, silent = TRUE)
> if (class(answer) == "try-error") return(NA) else return(answer)
> }
>
This approach worked. I had to define a test function of this sort outside
of the loops and then call it within the loops with appropriate parameter
values. Thanks for the assistance.
David Scott
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