How to write trycatch in R

Question

I want to write trycatch code to deal with error in downloading from the web.

url <- c(
    \"http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/ba         


        

Answer 1

Here goes a straightforward example:

# Do something, or tell me why it failed
my_update_function <- function(x){
    tryCatch(
        # This is what I want to do...
        {
        y = x * 2
        return(y)
        },
        # ... but if an error occurs, tell me what happened: 
        error=function(error_message) {
            message("This is my custom message.")
            message("And below is the error message from R:")
            message(error_message)
            return(NA)
        }
    )
}

If you also want to capture a "warning", just add warning= similar to the error= part.