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Luke Thanks ? I revised the code to: ERRORMESSAGE <- try(source(USERSCRIPTFILE, local=T), silent=T) print(ERRORMESSAGE) now returns: $value [1] 0 $visible [1] FALSE Not clear what to make of that. Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) www.PLessThan.com > On Feb 22, 2018, at 12:45 PM, luke-tierney at

Only the default error handler puts the error message in a buffer where it can be retrieved with geterrmessage. try() replaces the default error handler. Either look at the value returned by try() or use tryCatch with conditionMessage. Best, luke On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Dennis Fisher wrote: > R 3.4.3 > OS X > > Colleagues > > I have a 20K line script in which I encounter an

Colleagues, I am using R (2.9.2, all platforms) to search for a complicated text string using regular expressions. I would appreciate any help you can provide. The string consists of the following elements: SOMEWORDWITHNOSPACES any number of spaces and/or tabs ( any number of spaces and/or tabs integer any number of spaces and/or tabs ) Examples include: WORD ( 123 ) WORD(1 )

Colleagues R 2.10.1 on a Mac I read in textfiles using readLines, then I process those files, then I use R to execute another program. Occasionally those files contain characters other than letter / numbers / routine punctuation marks. For example, a bullet (option-8 on a Mac) triggers the problem. Although R can read and process those characters, the other program cannot so I would like to

R 2.12.2 Windows 7 Colleagues, I just took advantage of the function: readWindowsShortcut in R.utils. It accomplished my goals and I was interested in learning its inner workings. So, I typed the function at the command line (without arguments or parentheses). R returned: function (...) UseMethod("readWindowsShortcut") <environment: namespace:R.utils> providing no

R 4.0.2 OS X Colleagues I have the unfortunate need to create a large number of tables (destined for a Word document). I need to color cells depending on the contents, e.g., blue if the value is < 0.5, red if the value is > 1.5. If the output went initially to Excel, that would work; outputting directly to Word would be even better. I expect that several packages can accomplish this. I

Colleagues I am learning lattice graphics (R 2.12.2; OS X). Several days ago, I inquired about adding margin text to lattice graphics. Jim Price offered a useful reply, suggesting that I add: page = function(page) grid.text('words', x = 0.5, y = 0.01) to my call to the function. The entire function that he suggested was; xyplot(1 ~ 1, par.settings = list(layout.heights =

R 4.2.2 OS X Colleagues A file that I have read includes strings like this: "EVENT ? 30 sec" When I include the string in a graphic using: mtext(STRING, ?) it appears as: "EVENT ... 30 sec" Is there a simple work-around (short of reformatting all the strings, then using plotmath)? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone / Fax:

Colleagues Assume that I have a vector containing some text strings, some of which contain a particular character. I could like to apply "toupper" to the text before the character. For example (in this case, "|" is the particular character): ORIGINAL: TEXT <- c("aaaa", "bbb|cc", "|ddd") AFTER APPLICATION OF toupper: TEXT <-

Colleagues, I have created a list in the following manner: TEST <- list(c("A1", "A2"), c("B1", "B2"), c("C1", "C2")) I now want to delete one element from the list, e.g., the third. The command TEST[[3]] yields (as expected): [1] "C1" "C2" The command TEST[[-3]] yields: Error:

OS X R 4.3.1 Colleagues I often create multipage PDFs [pdf()] in which the text "Page X" appears in the margin. These PDFs are created automatically using a massive R script. One of my clients requested that I change this to: Page X of XX where XX is the total number of pages. I don't know the number of expected pages so I can't think of any clever way to do this. I

R 4.2.3 OS X Colleagues, I am printing a large number of tables using the print command. A simple example is: print(data.frame(COL1=1:5, COL2=10:6)) The result in this case is: COL1 COL2 1 1 10 2 2 9 3 3 8 4 4 7 5 5 6 I would like to print the table WITHOUT the row numbers: COL1 COL2 1 10 2 9 3 8 4 7 5 6 Is there any simple

R 2.15.1 OS X Colleagues, I am reading a 1 GB file into R using read.table. The file consists of 100 tables, each of which is headed by two lines of characters. The first of these lines is: TABLE NO. 1 The second is a list of column headers. For example: TABLE NO. 1 COL1 COL2 COL3 COL4 COL5 COL6 COL7 COL8 COL9 COL10

Colleagues During the transition to R3.0.0 (OS X), one of the packages that I used -- SASxport -- did not work until I used the "type=source" option in install.packages. This led to an adventure: 1. I downloaded the package source: SASxport_1.2.4.tar.gz 2. in the SASxport/R folder, I found all the functions that are part of the package. I became interested in whether I could

Colleagues, I have some text: TEXT <- c("a", "bb;ccc", "dddd;eeeee;ffffff") I want to retrieve the portion of each element before the first semicolon. I can split each element using strsplit: SPLIT <- strsplit(TEXT, ";") This yields: > SPLIT [[1]] [1] "a" [[2]] [1] "bb" "ccc" [[3]] [1] "dddd"

Colleagues, R 2.9.0 on all platforms I have a dataset that contains three columns of interest: ID's, serial elapsed times, and a marker. Representative data: Subject Time Marker 1 100.5 0 1 101 0 1 102 1 1 103 0 1 105 0 For each subject, I would like to find the time associated with MARKER == 1, then replace Time with Time - (Time[Marker == 1]) The result for this

Colleagues R: 2.12.2 OS X I have a set of text objects in the form (I am showing 3 of what is more likely to be 20 or so): OBJECTS <- c("abcSOMETHINGCOMMONegf", "xSOMETHINGCOMMONyz", "SOMETHINGCOMMONnme") As you can see, all contain "SOMETHINGCOMMON" and the position varies. But, I don't know what that "SOMETHINGCOMMON" is. Is there an

Colleagues, Hopefully a simple problem: I want to delete a column with a known name from a dataframe. I could write: FRAME <- FRAME[, names(FRAME) != NAMETODELETE] or FRAME <- FRAME[, !names(FRAME) %in% c(NAME1, NAME2, ETC)] Is there some simpler means to accomplish this? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784)

R 3.4.2 OS X Colleagues I would appreciate some help with regular expressions. I have string that looks like: " ITERATION ,THETA1 ,THETA2 ,THETA3 ,THETA4 ,THETA5 ,THETA6 ,THETA7 ,SIGMA(1,1) ,SIGMA(2,1) ,SIGMA(2,2)? In the entries that

Colleagues, I want to create the following array: "A1", "A2", "A3", "B1", "B2", "B3", "C1", "C2", "C3" I recall that there is a trick using "c" or "paste" permitting me to form all combinations of c("A", "B", "C") and 1:3. But, I can't recall the