simplify loop

Is there a way to implement this faster than doing it in a loop. 

        for (i in length(settle)-1:1) {
                settle[i] = settle[i+1]/(1 + settle.pct[i+1])
        }

I want to guarantee that i+1 is calculated before i

Yes, as the loop above as only one iteration, you can easily do it as:
  n <- length(settle)
  settle[n-1] <- settle[n]/(1 + settle.pct[n])

What you probably really meant, can also be simply done without a for
loop. You need a vector settle.pct and a scalar starting value (not a
full vector) settle. So in the following settle is assumed to be only
settle[n]:

  settle/c(rev(cumprod(1 + rev(settle.pct)))[-1], 1)

If settle.pct should in fact also be only be constant, this can of
course be further simplified.
Z

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