I want to make a presentation in which I demo which error messages are show when you run invalid R code. Printing the code and the error message. However, this will obviously break the Markdown report itself. Is there a setting for code chunks or reports in general that prints the error message instead of breaking the knitting of the report.
Here is a small reprex of something that should print the error instead of breaking the report:
Adding a character to a numeric yields the following error:
```{r}
x <- 2
x + "4"
```
What I would do is to set your chunk to eval = FALSE and then add another chunk with one of the two variants on the same theme:
### first with purrr
library(purrr)
x <- 2
unsafe <- function(x) {
x + "4"
}
safe <- purrr::safely(unsafe)
res <- purrr::map(c(2), safe)
res[[1]]$error$message
#> [1] "non-numeric argument to binary operator"
### second with base R
res <- tryCatch({x + "4"}, error = function(e) e)
res$message
#> [1] "non-numeric argument to binary operator"