AFAIK a try or tryCatch will intercept the error thrown by stop(). Why
not try it and see if it works?
Peter
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 1:05 PM Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via
R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote:
>
> Hi All:
>
> I am using another package in a project I have. Because of that, I have no
> control on how that package behaves or what it returns. This package has a
> function foo() that calls httr::GET(), and if it gets an error from
> httr::GET() it calls the following routine:
>
>
> err_handle2 <- function(x) {
> if (x$status_code > 201) {
> tt <- content(x, "text")
> mssg <- xml_text(xml_find_all(read_html(tt), "//h1"))
> stop(paste0(mssg, collapse = "\n\n"), call. = FALSE)
> }
> }
>
> My question is if I embed my call to foo() in try...catch will that override
> the stop() call or am I a goner, or is there another way to override it,
> given that I can't change the code to err_handle2().
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Roy
>
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