On 2/11/06, Patricia J. Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> "iw" == ivo welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> iw> * SUGGESTION: can we please offer the "?:" operator ala C in
> iw> addition to ifelse()? This would make R code prettier.
>
> R:
> if (condition) xxx else yyy
> if (condition) xxx else if (yyy) zzz else qqq
>
> C:
> condition ? xxx : yyy;
> condition ? xxx : yyy ? zzz : qqq;
>
> If this is a beauty contest, or a readability contest, I'll take R!
>
> ?: is pleasant in C because it avoids so much of the C syntactic
> sugar, of which R is largely free.
>
> As for ifelse(), for a trivial example, try running:
> ifelse(array(rep(c(1,0), 50), dim=c(10,10)), "00", "99")
Maybe this is not the point but in this particular example
we could write:
matrix(c("00", "99"), 10, 10)
>
> iw> Similarly, perl has a nice construct, which would be lovely, but
> iw> which may not jive with the
> iw> R syntax:
> iw> condition or die("the condition", condition, "has failed");
> iw> condition and cat("my condition", condition, "is met");
>
> if (!condition) stop("the condition", condition, "has failed")
> if (condition) cat("my condition", condition, "is met")
>
Try this:
stopifnot(condition)
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