From: cbarrera at umich.edu Hi Fellows from R-Help List! My questions are basic since i an new with R. I am very acquainted with Matlab & Gauss (the compentence, I guess). Anyhow, (1) I am trying to get R execute comands made or built as text, so that one can feed a particular option with many variations coming from a text file. Is this possible with the free version? For instance, there exists the eval comand in Matlab, which executes the matlab comand in the text argument incoming thru eval.
I guess you are looking for... eval():
cmd <- "x <- rnorm(30); summary(x)" eval(parse(text=cmd))
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. -1.6040 -0.3406 0.1896 0.1868 0.8361 1.8930 Not sure what you mean by `free version'. Do you know of a non-free version?
(2) Is there any way to avoid the automatic stop of a redundant NL estimation, like for instance, the one behind arima()? Usually, when the NL problem has spikes or the like, even the global optimizer procedures stop. If many models are supposed to be estimated and you just want to bypass those badly-behaved models (and store the many statistic values just as NAs), such a stop makes you correct the loop indexes and re-run the program. How to avoid it?
I guess you are looking for try() or tryCatch(). HTH, Andy
Best Carlos
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