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How can I use the try catch block such that if this statement fails xml <- xmlTreeParse(xmlTxt, useInternal=TRUE) then this statement is executed xml <- xmlMalFormed() ? This code does not work but assuming its somewhere along these lines: tryCatch(xml <- xmlTreeParse(xmlTxt, useInternal=TRUE), xml <- xmlMalFormed(f1)) -- View this message in context:

Could smb please help with try-catch encapsulating a function for downloading. Let's say I have a character vector of symbols and want to download each one and surround by try and catch to be safe # get.hist.quote() is in library(tseries), but the question does not depend on it, I could be sourcing local files instead ans=null;error=null; for ( sym in sym.vec){

I would like to use the 'tryCatch' function but am having a hard time getting my head around it. In 'C' like languages try/catch/finally means try a block of statements and if any throw an error then do the statements in the catch block and then error or not always do the staements in the finally block. In 'R' as best as I can tell the block of staements in the try block is