Well ^C or ESC (on Windows GUI) is the answer I would give. On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Ray Brownrigg wrote:
> Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > You have typed a syntactically incomplete statement: this is explained in > > > ?help. > > > > > > Hint: ?"for" and help("for") work. > > > > [Original question added back in: > > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Angel wrote: > > > > > I have always been intrigued by why ?for (or ?if,?while,etc) leave R > > > wanting for more: > > > > ?for > > > + > > > I know the help for these is in ?Control, but I sometimes make the > > > mistake of typing ?for instead. What is R expecting me to say to finish > > > the statement? > > ] > > Further hint: ? is an operator, syntactically similar to + and -. You > > can apply operators to the result of a for loop. Consider for example > > > > x <- 1; - for (i in 1:10) x <- x * i > > > > (? has special semantics, but that is not noticed at parse time). > > > Unfortunately the original question still hasn't been answered > explicitly, not even in ?help. > Try: > > ?for > + (i in 0) 0 > or: > > ?if > + (T) T > or: > > ?+ > + 0 > > So you have to provide the rest of a syntactically complete statement. > > Just to see if you now understand exactly how ? works, what do you > think: > ? paste("help") > will do? > > Ray Brownrigg > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help