Hi, This works:
for(i in seq(1,100,5)) { print(i) } Very similar to the way python does this kind of loop. Paul Evan Cooch schreef: > Basically new to [R] - as a programming environment at least (had lots > of recent experience compiling it on our Opteron-based servers). Was > trying to write some simple little scripts (in advance of porting over > some bigger things from other environments - like MATLAB), when I > realized that handling counters in loop constructs in [R] is not > patently obvious (at least, IMO, compared to other languages). > > Suppose I want to iterate something from 1 to 100, using a step size of > (say) 5. Trying the obvious > > for(x in 1:5:100) { > print(x) > } > > (Perhaps obviously, I've borrowed the MATLAB convention to some degree). > > Or, looping from 0 -> 1 by 0.01? > > I've dug through what [R] documentation I have, and all I can find is > the somewhat obtuse. > > For example, I can use > > x <- seq(0,1, by=.01) > > But not > > for(x in (0,1,by=0.01)) { > print(x) > } > > What about things that are slickly handled in C++, like > > for (node=start; value<threshold && node!=end; node=node->next) { ... } > > > OK - I'm stumped (and happy to humiliate myself with what has surely got > to be trivial). I'm happy with a simple basic counter at this point. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Drs. Paul Hiemstra Department of Physical Geography Faculty of Geosciences University of Utrecht Heidelberglaan 2 P.O. Box 80.115 3508 TC Utrecht Phone: +31302535773 Fax: +31302531145 http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.