tryCatch is not catching error and skips error argument

Question

I have noticed below error is not catched properly by tryCatch: it doesnt print TRUE, and it doesnt go to the browser...

Could it be a bug in the tryCatch function?

library(formattable)
df1 = structure(list(date = c("2018-12-19", "2018-12-19"), 
                     imo = c(9453391, 9771298), 
                     name = c("SFAKIA WAVE", "MEDI KYOTO"), 
                     speed = c(10.3000001907349, 11.6999998092651), 
                     destination = c("ZA DUR", "ZA RCB"), 
                     subsize = c("Post Panamax", "Post Panamax"), 
                     eta = c("2018-12-27 09:00:00", "2018-12-27 09:00:00"), 
                     ToSAF = c(TRUE, TRUE)), 
                .Names = c("date", "imo", "name", "speed", "destination", "subsize", "eta", "ToSAF"), 
                row.names = c(NA, -2L), 
                class = "data.frame")

tryCatch(expr = {
  L = list(formattable::area(row = 3)  ~ formattable::formatter('span', style = x ~ formattable::style(display = 'block', 'border-radius' = '4px', 'padding-right' = '4px')))
  formattable::formattable(df1, L)
  }, 
  error = function(e) {
    print(TRUE)
    browser()
  } 
)

Answer 1

There is no error when evaluating expression formattable::formattable(df1, L). You can verify by running:

L <- list(formattable::area(row = 3)  ~ formattable::formatter('span', style = x ~ formattable::style(display = 'block', 'border-radius' = '4px', 'padding-right' = '4px')))
test <- try(formattable::formattable(df1, L))
class(test)
[1] "formattable" "data.frame" 

In case of error the class should be "try-error". The error appears when you try to print the output of your expression to the console. I think you want:

L <- list(formattable::area(row = 3)  ~ formattable::formatter('span', style = x ~ formattable::style(display = 'block', 'border-radius' = '4px', 'padding-right' = '4px')))
test <- formattable::formattable(df1, L)
tryCatch(expr = {
  print(test)
  }, 
  error = function(e) {
    print(TRUE)
    browser()
  } 
)