[Rd] Re: [R-sig-finance] syntax for a loop

[Patrick Burns]

I don't think I understand you entirely, but here are a couple
things.

You need to shorten the loop so you don't run off the end.

You basically just write the code as you've stated it except that
"and" is && for single values and & for vectors

You don't say what should happen if the test is not true.

You can probably use "ifelse" instead of  a loop.

iseq <- 2:(length(x.dif) - 2)
test <- x.dif[iseq-1] <= 0 & x.dif[iseq] > 0 & x.dif[iseq + 2] > 0
ifelse(test, iseq + 2, NA)

I suspect that the last term in test should be i+1 and not i+2 ?

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ebashi wrote:

>I'll appreciate if some one can help me with the
>following loop. This is the logic of the loop,
>if we have the following data;
>  
>
>>x.df
>>    
>>
>    x.dif
> .    .
> .    .
>102  0.00
>103  0.42
>104  0.08
>105  0.00
>106  0.00
>107  0.00
>108 -0.16
>109 -0.34
>110  0.00
>111 -0.17
>112 -0.33
>113  0.00
>114  0.00
>115  0.00
>116  0.33
>117  0.17
>118  0.00 
> .    .
> .    .
>I'm trying to find i's where 
>  for (i in 2:length(x.dif))
>  if (x.dif[i-1]<=0 and x.dif[i]>0 and x.dif[i+2]>0)
>  it would return i+2 to me,
>How can I turn this to a right format as a loop.(I
>can't figure out the syntax)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Sean
>
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