Yes. If you want finer control use tryCatch.
Best,
luke
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Thomas Petzoldt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it *really intentional* that the "silent" option of try() does only
> apply to the outer call in nested try constructs? I would assume that a
> silent try() should suppress all error messages regardless where they
> occur, even if they are already handled with other try()'s.
>
> The error message itself should be (and is in both cases) reported by
> the return value of try().
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Thomas
>
>
> ## Old behavior (tested with R-2.4.1):
> > try(try(exp(NULL)), silent=TRUE)
> >
>
>
> ## Current behavior (R-2.6.0 unstable, build 42641, WinXP):
> > try(try(exp(NULL)), silent=TRUE)
> Error in exp(NULL) : Non-numeric argument to mathematical function
> >
>
>
>
>
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