Thank for the links. I reread one I found yesterday about changing the options parameter to options(warn = 2) and that allows the try() function to see a warning the same way as an error so problem solved using the existing code.
Cheers, Josh -----Original Message----- From: William Dunlap [mailto:wdun...@tibco.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 11:42 AM To: gleyne...@gmail.com; ROLL Josh F Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] To Try or to TryCatch, I have tried to long Or, Google for 'R catching warnings' and third entry is the excellent http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/debuggingR/ Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of William Dunlap > Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 11:38 AM > To: gleyne...@gmail.com; ROLL Josh F > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] To Try or to TryCatch, I have tried to long > > Look at the archives of this mailing list for a discussion entitled > 'Stack trace?' on Nov 9-10 of this year. > > Bill Dunlap > Spotfire, TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Gene Leynes > > Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 10:58 AM > > To: ROLL Josh F > > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: Re: [R] To Try or to TryCatch, I have tried to long > > > > I've had the same problem in other cases. > > > > Does anyone know how to catch warnings as well as errors? > > > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:34 PM, ROLL Josh F <jr...@lcog.org> wrote: > > > > > ** > > > Agreed. But what I am trying to control is when I get a warning. > > > I want to do something different if a warning OR an error pop up? Any > > > ideas? > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > *From:* gley...@gmail.com [mailto:gley...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of > > > *Gene Leynes > > > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 06, 2011 10:27 AM > > > *To:* ROLL Josh F > > > *Cc:* r-help@r-project.org > > > *Subject:* Re: [R] To Try or to TryCatch, I have tried to long > > > > > > I think the problem is that it's only a warning and not an error. > > > > > > result_<-list() > > > for(i in 1:10){ > > > if(inherits(try(sqrt(9-i),silent=TRUE),"try-error")){ > > > #If sqrt fails > > > cat('fail',i,'\n') > > > result_[[i]]<-0 } else { > > > #If sqrt succeeds > > > cat('succeed',i,'\n') > > > result_[[i]] <- 1 } > > > } > > > result_ > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:11 AM, LCOG1 <jr...@lcog.org> wrote: > > > > > >> So after about 4 hours struggling with Try and TryCatch I am > > >> throwing in the towel. I have a more complicated function that > > >> used logspline through iterative distributions and at some point > > >> the logspline doesnt function correctly for some subsets but is > > >> fine with others so I need to be able to identify when the error > > >> occurs and stop curtailing the distribution and I think this Try > > >> or TryCatch should do the trick but I think I am missing > > >> something here. A simple example > > >> > > >> > > >> result_<-list() > > >> for(i in 1:10){ > > >> if(inherits(try(sqrt(9-i),silent=TRUE),"try-error")){ > > >> #If sqrt fails > > >> result_[[i]]<-0 } else { > > >> #If sqrt succeeds > > >> result_[[i]] <- 1 } } > > >> > > >> > > >> I would expect this to fail only when i > 9 but succeeds each time. DO > > >> i > > >> need to specify something different where "try-error" resides? Thanks > > >> guys > > >> > > >> Cheers, > > >> Josh > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> View this message in context: > > >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/To-Try-or-to-TryCatch-I-have-tried-to-long-tp4165578p4165578.html > > >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > >> > > >> ______________________________________________ > > >> 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. > > >> > > > > > > > > > > [[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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
