Use tryCatch skip to next value of loop upon error?

Question

I\'ve read a few other SO questions about tryCatch and cuzzins, as well as the documentation:

• Exception handling in R
• catching an error a

Answer 1

One thing I was missing, which breaking out of for loop when running a function inside a for loop in R makes clear, is this:

• next doesn't work inside a function.
• You need to send some signal or flag (e.g., Voldemort = TRUE) from inside your function (in my case tryCatch) to the outside.
• (this is like modifying a global, public variable inside a local, private function)
• Then outside the function, you check to see if the flag was waved (does Voldemort == TRUE). If so you call break or next outside the function.