R help - Sep 2007 - Error handling

Hi,

is there a possibility to catch an occurring error and do an appropriate 
error handling? (like the "try-catch"-statement in other programming 
languages)

For example:
It's quite annoying to run a script for hours only to detect an abortion 
of the script because of an "subscript out of bounds" error. In that 
case I would like to react accordingly, i.e. by skipping the actual step 
in the for-loop, or so.

Thanks,
Chris

On 12/09/2007 5:08 AM, Christian Sch?fer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there a possibility to catch an occurring error and do an appropriate 
> error handling? (like the "try-catch"-statement in other
programming
> languages)
You could use the tryCatch() function (or try(), a simplified wrapper).

Duncan Murdoch
> 
> For example:
> It's quite annoying to run a script for hours only to detect an
abortion
> of the script because of an "subscript out of bounds" error. In
that
> case I would like to react accordingly, i.e. by skipping the actual step 
> in the for-loop, or so.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
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