labeled break statements in R?
On 18 Aug 2004, Roger Levy wrote:
Are there labeled break statements in R? i.e., something along the
lines of
TOPLOOP: for(i in 1:m) {
for(j in 1:n) {
...
if(condition) {
break TOPLOOP
}
}
}
No, but if you find yourself using nested for loops it is very likely that you are not thinking in the right way for a vector language. R does have a `R Language Definition' manual. It's long been an unfinished draft but it is not so incomplete as to omit reserved words. It and the S reference books are the places to research questions like this.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk 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