Looping syntax?

Sorry for what I hope is an unchallenging question for R veterans.

I have a question regarding looping syntax, though I know this should be 
avoided if possible in R - as in most other stat languages with which I am 
familiar.  

I would like to perform a series of operations on the subsets as defined by 
condition. Given the following data frame 

condition	X 	Y
aa		4	5
aa		8	9
.
.
bb		8	4
bb		3 	9
. 
. 
more ..

There are over 100 condition states, each with several hundred observations.  
For ease of this example, lets assume that I wish to make XY plots of each of 
the 100 condition states, with In other words, I need a structure like the 
following

for state in condition:
	identifier <- c("figure N:", cond)
	postscript(identifier,height=3,width=6,horizontal=F) 
	plot(X,Y, main=indentifier)
	n <- n+1

say your dataframe is called pippo and its columns are called 
condition, X, Y by

names(pippo)_c("condition","X",Y")


then 


 unique.cond_unique(pippo$condition) 
 l_length(unique.cond)  

 for(i in 1:l){
 filename_paste("figure_",unique.cond[i],".ps",sep="")  #will be 
                                                        #something
                                                       #like figure_aa.ps
 fig.title_paste("figure N:",unique.cond[i])
 postscript(file=filename,height=3, width=6, hor=T)
 plot(cbind(pippo$X,pippo$Y)[pippo$condition==unique.cond[i],],
	main=fig.title,xlab="X", ylab="Y") 
 dev.off()

}

this gives you as many files as there are unique conditions.


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