Re: [R] Simple error handling in R

2010-11-16 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Aleksey Naumov wrote: > Hi R experts, > > I am looking for a simple error handling approach, whereby I could stop > function execution with a customized error message. For example: > > for (i in 1:10) { >   if (i == 5) >      # I'd like to be able to stop right he

Re: [R] Simple error handling in R

2010-11-16 Thread Aleksey Naumov
Ottorino, Thank you for your suggestion. I am not really looking to do any debugging, but merely to issue an informative error message and stop execution of my top-level function, called at an R terminal. See me response to David for more details... Thank you, Aleksey On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:

Re: [R] Simple error handling in R

2010-11-16 Thread ottorino
Il giorno mar, 16/11/2010 alle 10.58 -0500, Aleksey Naumov ha scritto: > for (i in 1:10) { >if (i == 5) > # I'd like to be able to stop right here with an error message I > have > complete control over > } I'm far from expert, but perhaps this is near what you are looking for for(i in

Re: [R] Simple error handling in R

2010-11-16 Thread David Winsemius
On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Aleksey Naumov wrote: Hi R experts, I am looking for a simple error handling approach, whereby I could stop function execution with a customized error message. For example: for (i in 1:10) { if (i == 5){ #Then insert: cat("Informative error message") ; bre