Re: [R] Force the for loop to stop

That is great Stephan, thanks a lot for your help. best, salih On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Stephan Kolassa wrote: > Hi Salih, > > here you go: > > > dummy <- FALSE > for ( ii in 1:5 ) { > for ( jj in 3:6 ) { >cat("ii=",ii,"; jj=",jj,"\n",sep="

Re: [R] Force the for loop to stop

Hi Salih, here you go: dummy <- FALSE for ( ii in 1:5 ) { for ( jj in 3:6 ) { cat("ii=",ii,"; jj=",jj,"\n",sep="") if ( ii == jj ) { dummy <- TRUE break } } if ( dummy ) break } ###

Re: [R] Force the for loop to stop

Hi Stephan, Thanks a lot. But i am not very good at R yet so i dont know how to set the dummy variable to FALSE. Can you please help me with that as well? On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Stephan Kolassa wrote: > Hi, > > you could set a dummy variable to FALSE outside the outermost loop. If the >

Re: [R] Force the for loop to stop

Hi, you could set a dummy variable to FALSE outside the outermost loop. If the break condition is met in the inner loop, set the dummy variable to TRUE before breaking and test its truth status in the outer loop. HTH Stephan Am 01.06.2011 21:25, schrieb Salih Tuna: Hi, I am looking for a c

[R] Force the for loop to stop

Hi, I am looking for a command in R that would force the for loop to stop after it finds what it is looking for. As an example for(i in 1:5){ for(j in 3:6){ if(i==j) # do something... break; } } And i don't want the loop to execute once i = 3 and stop. Is there a way to do