On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:26 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Joshua Wiley wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Dwayne Blind <dwaynebl...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Dear R users, >>> >>> I have a basic question. In an "if statement", when several expressions >>> have >>> to be evaluated, they must be put inside curly braces, right ? >> >> Yes. >> >> if(1 > 2) {print("hello"); print("world")} >> if(4 > 2) {print("hello"); print("world")} > > Well, not actually. If they are all on the same line separated by ";"'s the > parser should accept. > > if(TRUE) print("hellooooo"); print("world"); y=3; z=2 > y > z I thought that at first also but look at:
if(FALSE) print("hello"); print("world") At least on my version of R, hello is not printed but world is. > > -- > David. >> >>> >>> For example : >>> >>> if (x>2) { >>> >>> y=3 >>> z=2 >>> >>> } >>> >>> >>> Thank you very much, >>> Dwayne >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Joshua Wiley >> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology >> University of California, Los Angeles >> http://www.joshuawiley.com/ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.