The lines below made me understand clearly. Maybe they are already in some documentation, but if not, it might help others to avoid my misunderstanding. Thanks to all for the clarifications. -- David
-----Original Message----- From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murd...@stats.uwo.ca] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:54 AM To: David Reiner <dav...@rhotrading.com> Cc: Henrik Bengtsson; r-help@r-project.org; SnowManPaddington Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [R] scoping rules for 'for' [was - Re: for/if loop ] - Found word(s) list error in the Text body <snip> Feel free to do what you like to the variable within the loop (though you might cause Luke to grind his teeth when it messes up his compiler). It will be set to the next value in the 1:10 vector the next time it comes back to the top. <snip> Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ 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.