From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Feb 20 20:59:11 2007
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:59:11 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] "try"ing to understand condition handling
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Look for 'exception' or 'handling':

http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/exceptions/simpcond.html
http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/exceptions/simplecond.html


On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, hadley wickham wrote:

>> Since you have not told us what 'the documents' are (and only vaguely
>> named one), do you not think your own documentation is inadequate?
>> 
>> There are documents about the condition system on developer.r-project.org:
>> please consult them.
>
> Where exactly?
>
> I tried:
>
> * reading http://developer.r-project.org/, but couldn't see anything
> obvious, and there certainly isn't anything in the pointers section
>
> * using find on that page to search for "condition", "try"
>
> * using the google search with keywords: "condition system", "try catch", 
> "try"
>
> Perhaps you could provide a more explicit reference?
>
> Hadley
>

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[Rd] "try"ing to understand condition handling
Prof Brian Ripley