Yes, CRAN did accept 'if(inherits(e, "try-error"))'. I remember now, when I used the try-construct the first time, I also saw tryCatch and found it a bit too extensive for my purposes. Will look at it again when needed.
Thanks to you and Enrico On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 at 16:03, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > See ?try which links you to ?tryCatch for the preferred approach. > > Alternatively: if(inherits(e, "try-error")) .... ## should work and satisfy > CRAN > > -- Bert > > > Bert Gunter > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and > sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 6:21 AM Hans W Borchers <hwborch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have been informed by CRAN administrators that the development >> version of R issues warnings for my package(s). Some are easy to mend >> (such as Internet links not working anymore), but this one I don't >> know how to avoid: >> >> Error in if (class(e) == "try-error") { : the condition has length > 1 >> >> I understand that `class` can return more than one value. But what >> would be the appropriate way to catch an error in a construct like >> this: >> >> e <- try(b <- solve(a), silent=TRUE) >> if (class(e) == "try-error") { >> # ... do something >> } >> >> Should I instead compare the class with "matrix" or "array" (or >> both)?. That is, in each case check with a correct result class >> instead of an error? >> >> Thanks, HW >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. ______________________________________________ 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.