Since you want to progress to further statements within test(), you need to wrap the summary function call in the try, not the whole test() function:
try( summary(w), silent =TRUE ) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Ebrahim Jahanshiri <e.jahansh...@gmail.com> wrote: >Thanks jeff, > >You are right about my expectation so if you have time please take a >look >at this: > >library(spdep) > >test <- function () { >#read neighborhood list > neigh.gal <- read.gal(" >http://sites.google.com/site/geosciej/Home/ter1RIorigM_T1.GAL?revision=1") > >#Making a weight matrix (listW) > w <- nb2listw(neigh.gal,style="B", zero.policy=TRUE) > > sink("w.txt") > summary(w) > sink() >#Did the execution reached this point? > print("the function reached this point in the code") > >} > > >and the result would be: > >> test() >Error in print(data.frame(rbind(unlist(spweights.constants(object, >zero.policy = zero.policy))[c(1, : >error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for function >'print': Error in spweights.constants(object, zero.policy = >zero.policy) : > regions with no neighbours found > >obviously the function does not go beyod sink(). > >the problem is at the print stage. the function does the job and this >error >is expected but still it halts the execution of function running (and >the >problem is not the sink() function, I tried). > >I tried > >try(test()) >options(showErrorCalls=F) >options(show.error.messages=F) > >for tryCatch() I could put the whole other part of the function in the >"finally" argument but it is not practical with many lines of code >ahead. > >I expect the code to continue executing regardless of any error or >warning. > >appreciate it > >Ebrahim > > > > >On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Jeff Newmiller ><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>wrote: > >> Sounds like you tried everything I know. However, I, and anyone else >on >> this list whose mind-reading powers are undeveloped, really can't be >sure >> because you didn't show us what you tried. Perhaps you should >(re-)read the >> posting guidelines and try showing us reproducible sample code that >doesn't >> do what you expect it to (along with some indication of what you >expected >> it to do). >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go >Live... >> DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live >> Go... >> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. >Playing >> Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with >> /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. >rocks...1k >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> Ebrahim Jahanshiri <e.jahansh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >Dear all, >> > >> >I have written some function that can go up to many lines. Two of >the >> >lines >> >give warning errors like: >> > >> >Error in print(....)[c(1, : >> > error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for >> >function 'print': Error in ... >> > regions with no neighbours found >> > >> > >> >now obviously this kind of error will halt the execution of the >> >function. I >> >tried *try()* or *tryCatch()* and many other selections in the >> >*options()*but still this error by all means stops the execution of >> >the function or >> >any other multi-line code. >> > >> >I would appreciate if you could give me a clue. >> > >> >Ebrahim >> > >> > [[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.