[R] stop() vs. error() ?

[Liaw, Andy]

So you still have not told us what exactly what you are looking for.  What
do you want some sort of stop() to do inside a function, that is neither an
error nor returning?  Can you show an example in some other language that
has such a feature?

Andy

> From: ivo welch [mailto:ivo.welch at yale.edu] 
> 
> Hi jim:  ahhh, but then the error messages are off for "real errors" 
> that occur later.
> 
> Hi pierre: a return() in a (2nd-level) function can be 
> different from a 
> stop().  one could argue about whether it should be possible 
> to stop() 
> in a function of course, without it being an error().
> 
> regards,
> 
> /iaw
> 
> 
> James MacDonald wrote:
> > And a closer examination of the help page would lead you to this:
> > 
> > options(show.error.messages=FALSE)
> > stop()
> > 
> > which is what I believe you want....
> > 
> > Jim
> 
> 
> also From Pierre Kleiber:
> 
> The thing is that functions don't really stop... they return. 
>  So what 
> you want is return()
>   Cheers, Pierre
> 
>