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or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question trycatch r x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; error in value[[3l]](cond) : unused argument (cond) it only takes a minute: Sign up skip to next value of loop upon error in R [tryCatch] up vote 29 down vote favorite 26 I've read a few other SO questions about tryCatch and cuzzins, as well as the
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documentation: Exception handling in R R: catching an error and then branching logic How can I check whether a function call results in a warning? Problems with Plots in Loop but I still don't understand. I'm running a loop and want to skip to next if any of a few kinds of errors occur: for (i in 1:39487) { #ERROR HANDLING this.could.go.wrong <- tryCatch( attemptsomething(), error=function(e) next ) so.could.this <- tryCatch( doesthisfail(), error=function(e) next ) catch.all.errors <- function() { this.could.go.wrong;
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so.could.this; } catch.all.errors; #REAL WORK useful(i); fun(i); good(i); } #end for (by the way, there is no documentation for next that I can find) When I run this, R honks: Error in value[[3L]](cond) : no loop for break/next, jumping to top level What basic point am I missing here? The tryCatch's are clearly within the for loop, so why doesn't R know that? r error-handling try-catch share|improve this question edited Nov 13 '11 at 6:34 asked Nov 11 '11 at 12:20 isomorphismes 3,64153149 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 42 down vote The key to using tryCatch is realising that it returns an object. If there was an error inside the tryCatch then this object will inherit from class error. You can test for class inheritance with the function inherit. x <- tryCatch(stop("Error"), error = function(e) e) class(x) "simpleError" "error" "condition" Edit: What is the meaning of the argument error = function(e) e? This baffled me, and I don't think it's well explained in the documentation. What happens is that this argument catches any error messages that originate in the expression that you are tryCatching. If an error is caught, it gets returned as the value of tryCatch. In the help documentation this is described as a calling handler. The argument e inside error=function(e) is the error message originating in your code. I come from the old school of procedural programming where
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Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each r continue loop other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up R: For loop skip if error / tryCatch up vote -1 down vote favorite I have a dataframe of 1000 rows. The code I want to loop through is http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8093914/skip-to-next-value-of-loop-upon-error-in-r-trycatch very simple - I just want to make all the values in column 4 uppercase. I want it such that if there is an error in any of the rows, I want it to skip that row and continue to the rest of the rows. I've written this code: for(i in 1:1000) { tryCatch(toupper(Total_Data_2[i,4]), error = function(e) next) } However, I get the error: Error in value[[3L]](cond) : no loop for break/next, jumping to top level Can http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30671246/r-for-loop-skip-if-error-trycatch someone help me with this? I could do a tryCatch or some sort of if iserror. Thanks in advance!! r share|improve this question asked Jun 5 '15 at 16:18 user4918087 15619 What errors are you expecting? I would just do Total_Data_2[, 4] = toupper(Total_Data_2[, 4]), no need for a loop. –Gregor Jun 5 '15 at 16:24 I have some special characters in some of the rows. That causes errors. –user4918087 Jun 5 '15 at 16:25 What are those special characters? –user227710 Jun 5 '15 at 16:28 Even if base R doesn't handle special characters well, stringi probably does. Try Total_Data_2[, 4] = stringi::stri_trans_toupper(Total_Data_2[, 4]) –Gregor Jun 5 '15 at 16:29 I'm not exactly sure, but I'm thinking it's because of foreign language conversion. Maybe it's not exactly a special character, but in one of my lines, I have a question mark inside a diamond. (And I have several of these occurences) –user4918087 Jun 5 '15 at 16:30 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote accepted While I don't think this is necessarily the best solution, it does answer your question directly (simplified for reproducibility): for(i in 1:10) { res <- try(if(i %% 2) stop("argh")) if(inherits(res, "try-error")) next cat(i, "\n") } Just using try instead of tryCatch b/c it's a bit simpler and tryCatch functionality
R -- Basic error Handing with tryCatch() Posted on December 7, 2011 by Jonathan Callahan This entry is part 4 of 20 in the series Using RThe R language definition section on Exception http://mazamascience.com/WorkingWithData/?p=912 Handling describes a very few basics about exceptions in R but is of little use to anyone trying to write robust code that can recover gracefully in the face of errors. In fact, if you do a little searching you will find that quite a few people have read through the ?tryCatch documentation but come away just as confused as when they started. In this post we'll try to error in clarify a few things and describe how R's error handling functions can be used to write code that functions similarly to Java's try-catch-finally construct. List of error handling functions Without any simple documentation on the subject, the first thing we need is a list of the functions involved in error handling. With this list in hand we can then start up R and type ?function_of_interest to read associated documentation or error in value[[3l]](cond) function_of_interest [without the ‘()'] to see how the function is implemented. Here is a minimal list of functions that anyone writing error handling code should read up on: warning(…) -- generates warnings stop(…) -- generates errors suppressWarnings(expr) -- evaluates expression and ignores any warnings tryCatch(…) -- evaluates code and assigns exception handlers Other functions exist that relate to error handling but the above are enough to get started. (The documentation for these functions will lead to all the other error-related functions for any RTFM enthusiasts.) R does try-catch-finally differently In case you hadn't noticed, R does a lot of things differently from most other programming languages. Java and Python and C and all other languages covered in Wikipedia's excellent page on Exception handling syntax use language statements to enable try-catch-finally. R, needing to be different, uses a function. But the tryCatch() function actually looks a lot like other languages' try-catch syntax if you format it properly: result = tryCatch({ expr }, warning = function(w) { warning-handler-code }, error = function(e) { error-handler-code }, finally = { cleanup-code } 123456789 result = tryCatch({ expr}, warning = function(w) { warning-handler-code}, error = function(e) { error-handler-code}, finally = { cleanup-code} In tryCatch() there are two ̵