Using tryCatch in a for loop

Hi Bert,


Thank you for the quick response!


In its current state the code prints three lines that say "warning". What
I was expecting is that I would get a matrix with 4 columns, 1. column
names (from the original data, ex. Lake1) 2. breakpoint year 3. slope 4.
slope difference from the first to the second segment of the segmented
regression. Each row in the matrix would be the results of the segmented
regression test for each lake in the original data frame, so Lake1 results
would be in row 2 (row 1 would be titles) and so on. If any of this is
confusing please let me know and I will clarify!


Thanks!


Bailey


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*From:* Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
*Sent:* May 22, 2018 2:13 PM
*To:* Bailey Hewitt
*Cc:* r-help at R-project.org
*Subject:* Re: [R] Using tryCatch in a for loop

Others may have greater insight, but my response is: Exactly what did or
didn't happen that makes you say the code didn't work? That is, what did or
didn't you get when you ran it compared to your expectations?

Cheers,
Bert



Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
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On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Bailey Hewitt <bailster at hotmail.com>
wrote:

Hello All,

I have been trying to use a for loop to run segmented regressions (from R
package segmented) on many columns  of data in a data frame with the end
goal of writing a new file with the following columns: column title,
breakpoint year, slope, and difference in slope. Unfortunately, when one of
the columns doesn't have a breakpoint the code stops and provides an error
or warning. I would like the loop to keep running regardless of the
error/warning but I want it to write that it did encounter an error or
warning. Based on my needs I found that tryCatch appears to do what I need.
I have looked at multiple examples, blogs, etc. as well as gone over the
documentation and Hadley Wickham's document in Advanced R but I am still a
novice when it comes to coding and I am having a hard time getting the code
to work properly. Below is the code I have developed thus far (with a test
dataset as an example):

#Creating a test dataset
Year<- c(2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
Lake1<- c(2, 4, 5, 2, 1)
Lake2<- c(1, 3, -1, 4, -2)
Lake3<- c(1, 2, 5, -3, 1)
mydata<- data.frame(Year, Lake1, Lake2, Lake3)

#Running a for loop that indicates when an error or warning occurs
y<- mydata[,2:4]
year <- mydata$Year
regimeshift <- data.frame()
for (i in 1:3){
  tryCatch({
    y.val <- y[,i]
    lin.reg <- lm(y.val~year, mydata)
    seg.reg <- segmented.lm(lin.reg, seg.Z = ~ year, psi = NA, control =
seg.control(stop.if.error = FALSE, n.boot = 0, it.max = 20))
    RSyear <- summary(seg.reg)$psi [1,2]
    SlopeRegime1 <- summary(seg.reg)$coefficients[2,1]
    SlopeDiff <- summary(seg.reg)$coefficients[3,1]
    new.regimeshift <- data.frame(RSyear=RSyear,
SlopeRegime1=SlopeRegime1, SlopeDiff=SlopeDiff)
    rownames(new.regimeshift) <- colnames(y)[i]
    regimeshift <- rbind(regimeshift,new.regimeshift)
    print(regimeshift)
  }, error= function(e) {cat("Error", "\n")},
    warning= function(w) {cat("Warning", "\n")})
}

Any ideas or suggestions you might have are greatly appreciated!

Bailey Hewitt
PhD Candidate
York University
Ontario, Canada