Some use try blocks, like found in other languages. Put the code you want to try inside the block.
https://www.robertknight.io/blog/try-blocks-in-r-for-error-handling/ contains a quick example. The example doesn’t raise exceptions or anything, it just contains it for you so the script keeps going. I like handling errors with if statements inside of try blocks. Robert > On Feb 27, 2019, at 2:55 PM, Bernard Comcast <mcgarvey.bern...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > What is the recommended way to trap errors in R? My main need is to be able > to trap an error and then skip a section of code if an error has occurred. In > VB for Excel I used the “On Error goto .....” construct to do this. > > Bernard > Sent from my iPhone so please excuse the spelling!" > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.