How to write trycatch in R
问题 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/base/html/connections.html", "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz") y <- mapply(readLines, con=url) These two statements run successfully. Below, I create a non-exist web address: url <- c("xxxxx", "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz") url[1] does not exist. How does one write a trycatch loop (function) so that: When the URL is wrong, the output will be: "web URL is