The safe bit is to always use the curly brackets on the 'if' statements to avoid problems. I always do
if (......) { statement } On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.