SONOFAGUN…I’m a bit embarrassed. Thanks Bill! From: William Dunlap [mailto:wdun...@tibco.com] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 6:15 PM To: Michael Ashton Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Simple control structure issue
R is a case-sensitive language: 'if' (lowercase 'i') is a keyword and 'If' (uppercase 'I') is not. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com<http://tibco.com> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Michael Ashton <m.ash...@enduringinvestments.com<mailto:m.ash...@enduringinvestments.com>> wrote: I am having a hard time with 'next'. I come from the "sloppy" school that learned BASIC with Goto. Conceptually next seems pretty straightforward. I just can't get it to work correctly in my code. Here's a stripped down version: WhichRunNow<-"Daily" Cnums=c(0,1,"2b3") Cpers=c("Daily","Daily","Weekly") for (j in (1:length(Cnums))) { If (!identical(Cpers[j],WhichRunNow)){ next } print(j) } So, this should print the number "3", which it does. It prints 3 because "WhichRunNow" is "Daily", and only for j=3 is Cpers[j] not identical to "Daily". But R seems very unhappy with how it gets there: > WhichRunNow<-"Daily" > Cnums=c(0,1,"2b3") > Cpers=c("Daily","Daily","Weekly") > > for (j in (1:length(Cnums))) { + If (!identical(Cpers[j],WhichRunNow)){ Error: unexpected '{' in: "for (j in (1:length(Cnums))) { If (!identical(Cpers[j],WhichRunNow)){" > next Error: no loop for break/next, jumping to top level > } Error: unexpected '}' in "}" > print(j) [1] 3 > } Error: unexpected '}' in "}" > Obviously something with my syntax, but I can't see what I'm doing wrong! [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org<mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
