[R] ?for

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon Nov 17 10:46:30 CET 2003


You have typed a syntactically incomplete statement: this is explained in 
?help.

Hint: ?"for" and help("for") work.

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Angel wrote:

> I have always been intrigued by why ?for (or ?if,?while,etc) leave R
> wanting for more:
> > ?for
> + 
> I know the help for these is in ?Control, but I sometimes make the
> mistake of typing ?for instead. What is R expecting me to say to finish
> the statement?

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