[R] catching errors in RNetCDF

[Jannis]

Hi Pascal,

Well, as i see it, this is no error, just a simple message printed to 
the screen claiming that it is an error. All the mechanisms in R to 
handle errors (e.g a stop of code execution etc) are, however, not 
initiated.


Cheers
Jannis

On 06.12.2012 02:53, Pascal Oettli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I try your example, I simply get an error:
>
>  > library(RNetCDF)
>  > con <- create.nc('test.nc')
>  > test <- try(var.get.nc(con, 'dummy'))
> Error : NetCDF: Variable not found
>
> Regards,
> Pascal
>
>
> Le 05/12/2012 22:08, Jannis a écrit :
>> Dear R community,
>>
>>
>> I quite frequently run into errors while using the RNetCDF package which
>> do not seem to be recognised as normal R errors and, hence, do not stop
>> the execution of the code making it hard to debug the code.
>>
>> Consider, for example:
>>
>> library(RNetCDF)
>> con <- create.nc('test.nc')
>> test <- try(var.get.nc(con, 'dummy'))
>>
>>
>> In this case, some sort of error message is printed to the screen, but R
>> does not recognise this as an error. Is there any way to solve this?
>>
>> I contacted the author of the package but it seems that there will be no
>> solution from that side.
>>
>>
>> Any Ideas?
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jannis
>>
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