tryCatch not catching error produced by install.packages within RStudio

Question

Consider the following usage:

tryCatch(log(\"a\"), error = function(e) NULL)
#NULL

Now I\'m trying to do essentially the same, but in a more co

Answer 1

I'm going to suggest closing as off-topic because this is an RStudio problem. Basically, tryCatch is catching the error, but RStudio's error handler prints the error anyway. Thus the reason you're getting a return value:

[[1]]
NULL

[[2]]
NULL

This means tryCatch works. RStudio just prints caught errors weirdly.