Basically you want to use the tryCatch()
function. Look at help(“tryCatch”) for more details.
Here’s a trivial example (keep in mind that you can do whatever you want with an error):
vari <- 1
tryCatch(print("passes"), error = function(e) print(vari), finally=print("finished"))
tryCatch(stop("fails"), error = function(e) print(vari), finally=print("finished"))
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