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You don't want a for loop. You need a while loop.
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r-help-boun...@r-project.org wrote on 03/15/2011 10:14:21 AM:
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> [R] indeterminate for loop
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> lm609
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> to:
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> r-help
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> 03/15/2011 10:16 AM
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> r-help-boun...@r-project.org
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> Hello,
>
> I have written a 'for' loop which on the first run makes nearest
neighbour
> calculations for my dataset 'A' in relation to dataset 'B', then based
on
> these results, some of the rows from A are moved into dataset B, and the
> calculation is repeated on the remaining rows in A. Therefore a smaller
and
> smaller amount of data is analysed as the loop proceeds, since A is
losing
> rows each time. The results of the calculation change as less data is
used,
> but not in a predictable way, therefore the end point of the loop is
> indeterminate.
>
> The script is long and the datasets big, but a simplified example where
'A'
> and 'B' are datasets, and the function 'ndist2' calculates 'x' is...
>
> for (i in 1:100)
> {
> C <- data.frame(ndist2(B,A))
> C1 <- subset(C, x = min(C$x))
> B <- rbind(B, C1)
> A <- subset(C, x > min(C$x))
> }
>
> So eventually A runs out.
>
> Currently, I let the loop run until a warning comes up which effectively
> says no more data, and at this point it is finished.
>
> What I would now like to do is place this loop inside another loop in
order
> to run through multiple datasets, but I can't do this when the script
> produces a warning message at the end of each dataset.
>
> Is there any way I can overcome this problem?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Louise
>
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