Jim: That's the ticket! I'm actually using parLapply with a long, ugly function - so I was loath to post that mess.
Many thanks - you saved my weekend. On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:23 PM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please show us the 'lapply' statement you are using. Here is a simple > case of catching an error in an lapply and continuing: > > > lapply(c(1,2,-3, 4), function(x){ > + a <- try(stopifnot(x > 0)) # force an error > + if (inherits(a, 'try-error')) return(NULL) > + x > + }) > Error : x > 0 is not TRUE > [[1]] > [1] 1 > > [[2]] > [1] 2 > > [[3]] > NULL > > [[4]] > [1] 4 > > > > > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:51 PM, John Kerpel <john.ker...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Folks: > > > > I've replaced an outer for-loop with lapply and it works great. But, I > > can't seem to do the following type of exception handling: > > > > tryCatch(dlmMLE(x)$value==Inf,error = function(e) NULL) > > > > which basically says if the likelihood is Inf, throw an error. But what > I > > want it to do is just go to the next index in the list. When I was > using a > > for-loop I used: > > > > if(tryCatch(dlmMLE(x)$value==Inf,error = function(e) 1)==1) {next} else > > .... which worked fine. > > > > Is there a way to do the same thing in lapply? > > > > Thanks for your time. (I've checked Gmane for this type of problem and I > > wasn't sure if this problem was answered or not...) > > > > John > > > > [[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. > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Data Munger Guru > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. > [[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.