2009/10/6 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>: > > The first rule is easy: As long as you are using scalar valued (i.e. length > 1 vectors in R) "cond", you should prefer > if(cond) cons.expr else alt.expr > rather than > ifelse(cond, yes, no) > because the latter one evaluates both "yes" and "no" while the former one > evaluates exactly one of both expressions.
I don't think that that is true. The false leg was not evaluated here: > ifelse(TRUE, { cat("a"); 1}, {cat("b"); 2}) a[1] 1 ______________________________________________ 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.