How to write trycatch in R

Question

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

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    \"http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/ba         


        

Answer 1

Since I just lost two days of my life trying to solve for tryCatch for an irr function, I thought I should share my wisdom (and what is missing). FYI - irr is an actual function from FinCal in this case where got errors in a few cases on a large data set.

1. Set up tryCatch as part of a function. For example:

   irr2 <- function (x) {
     out <- tryCatch(irr(x), error = function(e) NULL)
     return(out)
   }
   

2. For the error (or warning) to work, you actually need to create a function. I originally for error part just wrote error = return(NULL) and ALL values came back null.

3. Remember to create a sub-output (like my "out") and to return(out).