Tom,
Bill Venables gave you references to important tools for dealing with
for loops in R and they may be all the solution that you need. But here
is a little more detail on what is going on in case you want/need more
control in the future.
Note that the R for loop is what some programers call a foreach loop,
meaning that rather than specifying an init, a test, and an increment
(like C), you give the loop a vector of values and it loops through that
vector using all the values regaurdless of what changes are made.
In C, the for loop:
for( init; test; inc ){ ... }
Is just shorthand for:
init;
while( test ){
...
inc
}
R also has the while loop, so you can write a C style for loop in R by
doing something like:
> i <- 1
> while( i <= 13 ){
+ print(i)
+ i <- i + 1
+ }
>
And if you insert i=12 into that, then it will behave how you describe.
'next' and 'break' also work with while loops to give even more
control/options.
Hope this helps,
--
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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> > ?`break`
> > ?`next`
>
> > for(i in 1:13) {
> if(i < 13) next
> print("Hello!\n")
> }
> [1] "Hello!\n"
> >
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> Hi,
>
> I am trying to find a solution in R for the following C++
> code that allows one to skip ahead in the loop:
>
> for (x = 0; x <= 13; x++){
> x=12;
> cout << "Hello World";
> }
>
> Note that "Hello World" was printed only twice using this C++
> loop. I tried to do the same in R:
>
> for(i in 1:13){
> i=12
> print("Hello World")
> }
> It doesn't work as I expected, i.e., this R loop prints
> "Hello World" 13 times.
>
> Does anyone know how to do it in R?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Tom
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