Aliases: stopifnot
Keywords: environment programming error
### ** Examples stopifnot(1 == 1, all.equal(pi, 3.14159265), 1 < 2) # all TRUE m <- matrix(c(1,3,3,1), 2, 2) stopifnot(m == t(m), diag(m) == rep(1, 2)) # all(.) |=> TRUE op <- options(error = expression(NULL)) # "disabling stop(.)" << Use with CARE! >> stopifnot(length(10)) # gives an error: '1' is *not* TRUE
Error: length(10) is not TRUE
## even when if(1) "ok" works stopifnot(all.equal(pi, 3.141593), 2 < 2, (1:10 < 12), "a" < "b")
Error: pi and 3.141593 are not equal: Mean relative difference: 1.102658e-07
## More convenient for interactive "line by line" evaluation: stopifnot(exprs = { all.equal(pi, 3.1415927) 2 < 2 1:10 < 12 "a" < "b" })
Error: 2 < 2 is not TRUE
eObj <- expression(2 < 3, 3 <= 3:6, 1:10 < 2) stopifnot(exprObject = eObj)
Error: 1:10 < 2 are not all TRUE
stopifnot(exprObject = quote(3 == 3)) stopifnot(exprObject = TRUE) # long all.equal() error messages are abbreviated: stopifnot(all.equal(rep(list(pi),4), list(3.1, 3.14, 3.141, 3.1415)))
Error: rep(list(pi), 4) and list(3.1, 3.14, 3.141, 3.1415) are not equal: Component 1: Mean relative difference: 0.01323935 Component 2: Mean relative difference: 0.0005069574 Component 3: Mean relative difference: 0.0001886475 ....
# The default error message can be overridden to be more informative: m[1,2] <- 12 stopifnot("m must be symmetric"= m == t(m))
Error: m must be symmetric
#=> Error: m must be symmetric options(op) # revert to previous error handler