Thank you, Greg. This indeed works well for this purpose. > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Snow [mailto:greg.s...@imail.org] > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:27 PM > To: Doran, Harold; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: RE: stop() > > Replace "stop()" with "break" to see if that does what you want. (you may > also want to include "cat()" or "warn()" to indicate the early stopping. > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > Statistical Data Center > Intermountain Healthcare > greg.s...@imail.org > 801.408.8111 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > > project.org] On Behalf Of Doran, Harold > > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:32 AM > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: [R] stop() > > > > Suppose I have a function, such as the toy example below: > > > > myFun <- function(x, max.iter = 5) { > > for(i in 1:10){ > > result <- x + i > > iter <- i > > if(iter == max.iter) stop('Max reached') > > } > > result > > } > > > > I can of course do this: > > myFun(10, max.iter = 11) > > > > However, if I reach the maximum number of iterations before my > > "algorithm" has finished (in my real application there are EM steps for > > a mixed model), I actually want the function to return the value of > > "result" up to that point. Currently using stop(), I would get > > > > > myFun(10, max.iter = 4) > > Error in myFun(10, max.iter = 4) : Max reached > > > > But, in this toy case the function should return the value of "result" > > up to iteration 4. > > > > Not sure how I can adjust this. > > > > Thanks, > > Harold > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > > guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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