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stopifnot {base}

Package: 
base
Version: 
R 2.15.0

Description

If any of the expressions in ... are not all TRUE, stop is called, producing an error message indicating the first of the elements of ... which were not true.

Usage

stopifnot(...)

Arguments

...
any number of (logical) R expressions, which should evaluate to TRUE.

Details

This function is intended for use in regression tests or also argument checking of functions, in particular to make them easier to read.

stopifnot(A, B) is conceptually equivalent to { if(any(is.na(A)) || !all(A)) stop(...) ;            if(any(is.na(B)) || !all(B)) stop(...) }.

Values

(NULL if all statements in ... are TRUE.)

See Also

stop, warning.

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))
# "disable stop(.)"  << Use with CARE! >>
 
stopifnot(all.equal(pi, 3.141593),  2 < 2, all(1:10 < 12), "a" < "b")
stopifnot(all.equal(pi, 3.1415927), 2 < 2, all(1:10 < 12), "a" < "b")
 
options(op)# revert to previous error handler

Documentation reproduced from R 2.15.0. License: GPL-2.