How to tell lapply to ignore an error and process the next thing in the list?

Question

I have an example function below that reads in a date as a string and returns it as a date object. If it reads a string that it cannot convert to a date, it returns an erro

Answer 1

You can also accomplish this kind of task with the purrr helper functions map and possibly. For exampel

library(purrr)
map(dates2, possibly(testFunction, NA))

Here possibly will return NA (or whatever value you specified if an error occurs.