Because you missed your closing parens in the "text" function call. The closing parens is closing the "paste" function, you need one more. I don't know what you're trying to do here, but I am guessing there's a faster way?
> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Antje## > Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 10:37 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Problems with code containing a for loop > > > The following code isn't working and we can't figure out why.. > > letters = c("A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J") > numbers = 1:3 > > for(i in 1:6){ #6 letters > for (j in 1:3) { #3 numbers > for (k in -1:1) { #answer -1,right or +1 > fn = paste (i,j,k,".bmp",sep="") > bmp(file = fn) > plot(x = 10, y = 10, ylim=c(0,1), xlim=c(0,1), > axes=FALSE, ylab="", xlab="") > text(0.5,0.5, text = paste(letters[i], "+", > numbers[j],"=", letters [i+j+k]) > dev.off() > } > } > } > > We get the following errors: > Error: unexpected symbol in: > " text(0.5,0.5, text = paste(letters[i], "+", > numbers[j],"=", letters [i+j+k]) > dev.off" > > } > Error: unexpected '}' in " }" > > } > Error: unexpected '}' in " }" > > } > Error: unexpected '}' in " }" > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problems-with-code- > containing-a-for-loop-tp25823173p25823173.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
