Have a look at example(try) and demo(error.catching) > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Jonathan Greenberg > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 21:48 > To: r-help > Subject: [R] Completely ignoring an error in a function... > > The code base is a bit too complicated to paste in here, but the gist of my > question is this: given I have a function > > myfunction <- function(x) > { > # Do something A > # Do something B > # Do something C > } > > Say "#Do something B" returns this error: > Error in cat(list(...), file, sep, fill, labels, append) : > argument 2 (type 'list') cannot be handled by 'cat' > > A standard function would stop here. HOWEVER, I want, in this odd case, to > say "keep going" to my function and have it proceeed to # Do something C. > How do I accomplish this? I thought suppressWarnings() would do it but it > doesn't appear to. > > Assume that debugging "Do something B" is out of the question. Why am I > doing this? Because in my odd case, "Do something B" actually does what I > needed it to, but returned an error that is irrelevant to my special case (it > creates two files, failing on the second of the two files -- but the first > file it > creates is what I wanted and there is no current way to create that single > file > on its own without a lot of additional coding). > > --j > > -- > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD > Assistant Professor > Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science University of > Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > 607 South Mathews Avenue, MC 150 > Urbana, IL 61801 > Phone: 217-300-1924 > AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn...@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007 > > [[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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