Hi Stephan, Thanks a lot. But i am not very good at R yet so i dont know how to set the dummy variable to FALSE. Can you please help me with that as well?
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Stephan Kolassa <stephan.kola...@gmx.de>wrote: > Hi, > > you could set a dummy variable to FALSE outside the outermost loop. If the > break condition is met in the inner loop, set the dummy variable to TRUE > before breaking and test its truth status in the outer loop. > > HTH > Stephan > > > Am 01.06.2011 21:25, schrieb Salih Tuna: > >> Hi, >> I am looking for a command in R that would force the for loop to stop >> after >> it finds what it is looking for. >> As an example >> for(i in 1:5){ >> for(j in 3:6){ >> if(i==j) >> # do something... >> break; >> } >> } >> And i don't want the loop to execute once i = 3 and stop. >> >> Is there a way to do this? >> >> best, >> salih >> >> [[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. >> >> > [[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.