On Thursday 09 October 2003 19:03, Ted Harding wrote: > Hi Folks, > I'm seeking advice about how to resume an outer loop following > failure of a function within the loop (which issues an error > message). > > Essentially, I'm repeating (simulating) a process which involves > random sampling, EM and MCMC. I'm walking on very edge of rather > thin ice -- data rather thinly spread over many parameters! > > Occasionally some component of the loop fails, with an error > message. At this point, R quits the run altogether and returns to > the command prompt. I then have to restart the whole script. > > All that's really needed to cope with the situation is for R to > drop that cycle of the loop, and resume with a new cycle. > > However, I'm wondering how to set this up. I've had a look at > try(), and I'm not at all sure that it does what I would want. > What I'd really like is something (inside the loop) on the lines of > > on.error(maybe some parameters X) break > > where X might specify what sort of error or what function it comes > from. Would setting > > options(error = break ) > > do it? > > Any other suggestions?
Look at try(). hth, Z > With thanks, > Ted. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 > Date: 09-Oct-03 Time: 18:03:37 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help