I definitely need a loop - the example I gave was only a simple one. Say I want to do more complex calculations in each step, such that the numeric difference between consecutive terms is not constant.
I will try out some of the methods that have been shared so far. Thank you! -Steve From: Jean V Adams [mailto:jvad...@usgs.gov] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:38 PM To: Steve Lavrenz Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Creating a loop with an indefinite end term Do you need a loop at all? Will this do the trick? seq(from=0, to=100, by=5) Jean Steve Lavrenz wrote on 04/10/2012 09:48:34 AM: > Everyone, > > I'm very new to R, especially when it comes to loops and functions, so > please bear with me if this is an elementary question. I cannot seem to > figure out how to construct a loop which runs a function until a certain > value is computed. For example, say I have the following: > > num = numeric (10) > num [1] = 0 > for (i in 2:10) { > num [i] = num [i-1] + 5 > } > > This adds 5 to the preceding spot of a vector of length 10 to get the value > in the current spot. However, say I don't just want to run this for 10 > spots; rather I want to run it until a certain value (say, 100) is computed. > How I construct my loop to do this? > > Thanks! [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
