[R] inconsistency in tryCatch...

[akshay kulkarni]

dear Jeff,
               Thanks a lot for the informative reply....

Yours sinecrely,
AKSHAY M KULKARNI
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From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2022 1:25 AM
To: akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 using hotmail.com>; r-help using r-project.org <r-help using r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] inconsistency in tryCatch...

I don't think it is at all idiosyncratic... tryCatch doesn't expect the first argument to be a function... it is supposed to be the actual code that might break and raise an error.

There are lots of functions (like lapply) that do expect you to provide a function, and even the other parameters to tryCatch expect a function, but you would not write a for loop and have a function definition in the body of the loop and expect the for loop to know it was supposed to call that function, would you? Think of tryCatch like a for loop or an if statement.

On June 22, 2022 12:36:27 PM PDT, akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 using hotmail.com> wrote:
>Dear Jeff,
>               Thanks! I think it is an idiosyncrasy of tryCatch? The other arguments like "error" doesn't need to be assigned to a call right? Just the definition would be sufficient, i think?
>
>Yours sincerely,
>AKSHAY M KULKARNI
>________________________________
>From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
>Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2022 12:53 AM
>To: r-help using r-project.org <r-help using r-project.org>; akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 using hotmail.com>; R help Mailing list <r-help using r-project.org>
>Subject: Re: [R] inconsistency in tryCatch...
>
>You defined a function. You did not call the function. tryCatch returned the object you defined. So the interactive console printed the object returned.
>
>Invoking the "function" function does not call the defined function for you. Try:
>
>tryCatch((function() print("fred"))(), error = function(e) sum(1:3), finally = sum(1:3))
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>On June 22, 2022 12:00:38 PM PDT, akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 using hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Dear members,
>>                          I have the following code:
>>
>>        > tryCatch(function() print("fred"),  error = function(e) sum(1:3), finally = sum(1:3))
>>         function() print("fred")
>>
>>The expected output from the tryCatch call should be to print "fred" to the console, and exit, but as seen above, it is outputting
>>          function() print("fred")
>>
>>Can you people please shed some light on what is happening?
>>
>>thanking you,
>>Yours sincerely,
>>AKSHAY M KULKARNI
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