Ok, so I'm new to R, but this is driving me crazy. In this example, I
am trying to process each element in a list.
<code>
s = "1,2"
l = strsplit(s, ",", fixed=TRUE)
print("BEGIN")
n = length(l)
i = 1
while (i <= n) {
x = l[[i]]
print(paste("x:", class(x), x))
print("BEFORE PRINT")
print(x)
print("AFTER PRINT")
i = i + 1
}
</code>
<actual output>
[exec] [1] "BEGIN"
[exec] [1] "x: character 1" "x: character 2"
[exec] [1] "BEFORE PRINT"
[exec] [1] "1" "2"
[exec] [1] "AFTER PRINT"
[exec] [1] "END"
[exec] [1] TRUE
</actual output>
<expected output>
[exec] [1] "BEGIN"
[exec] [1] "x: character 1"
[exec] [1] "BEFORE PRINT"
[exec] [1] "1"
[exec] [1] "AFTER PRINT"
[exec] [1] "x: character 2"
[exec] [1] "BEFORE PRINT"
[exec] [1] "2"
[exec] [1] "AFTER PRINT"
[exec] [1] "END"
[exec] [1] TRUE
</expected output>
What *basic* concept am I missing here? The same thing happens with
for (x in l) and lapply(l, function(x) print(x)). Please help.
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