Exceptions in control flow in R

I was listening to a Bike Shed podcast episode 189, “It’s Gonna Work, Definitely, No Problems Whatsoever”, and starting at 27:44 there was a conversation about exception handling. Specifically it was about exception handling in control flow when doing web API requests. This topic piqued my interest straight away as I do a lot of API stuff (making and wrapping). The part of the conversation that I want to address is their conclusion that exceptions in control flow are an anti-pattern....

March 4, 2019 · 9 min · Scott Chamberlain