How to tell lapply to ignore an error and process the next thing in the list?

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Use a tryCatch expression around the function that can throw the error message:

testFunction <- function (date_in) {
  return(tryCatch(as.Date(date_in), error=function(e) NULL))
}

The nice thing about the tryCatch function is that you can decide what to do in the case of an error (in this case, return NULL).

> lapply(dates2, testFunction)
[[1]]
[1] "2010-04-06"

[[2]]
NULL

[[3]]
[1] "2010-04-08"

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