[R] Problem with parser and if/else

[James MacDonald]

> I'm trying to grasp this: if you're saying (or are you saying) that
the 
> only way to have if() know that an else will be present is to put it
on the 
> same line as the closing curly brace of the if() (compound)
statement. But 
> if I look at some code from, e.g., aov and lm, I see plenty
violations of 
> that rule.

There are no violations to that rule in either lm or aov. It simply
looks that way if you type lm or aov from within R. If you looked at the
functions themselves using an editor, you would see that they all
conform to 

if{
...
}else{
...
}

> regards,
> Paul


Jim



James W. MacDonald
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