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For loop indicies

5 messages · Andris Jankevics, Sarah Goslee, Enrico Schumann +1 more

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I would like to run a for loop with an index going from 0 to 499 but the following seems to miss out the first value:

C <- 499
for (i in 0:C)

The alternative is:

C <- 500
for (i in 1:C)
{
#Then every time I use i, I replace it with i-1
}

Is this a good way to do it or is tere a better way?

Thank you,

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Hi,

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Thomas Chesney
<Thomas.Chesney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
First off, you've named your variable for an existing function, which
can cause all kinds of problems.

Second, this should work just fine, as it does for me:
0
1
2
3
4

What leads you to think that it's not working?
There's a better way to ask your question, at least: give us
reproducible code, and explain what you are not seeing that you expect
to see, or vice versa. "seems to miss out on the first value" - what
happens? If I can't reproduce it, I can't help you solve it.

Sarah
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You may want to check how your loop "misses out" the zero:

C <- 5
for (i in 0:C) print(i)

## gives me

[1] 0
[1] 1
[1] 2
[1] 3
[1] 4
[1] 5


Regards,
Enrico

Am 12.12.2011 12:44, schrieb Thomas Chesney:

  
    
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Ah. I did a Silly Thing, and thank you for all the responses helping me track it down.

The issue lay not in the for (i in 1:C) but in the line VectorName[i] <- ...

That's the one that didn't like 0.


Thomas