[R] Break during the recursion?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 15/07/2007 11:36 AM, Atte Tenkanen wrote:
>> On 15/07/2007 10:33 AM, Atte Tenkanen wrote:
>>>> On 15/07/2007 10:06 AM, Atte Tenkanen wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to break using if-condition during the recursive 
>>>> function?
>>>> You can do
>>>>
>>>>  if (condition) return(value)
>>>>
>>>>> Here is a function which almost works. It is for inorder-tree-
>>>> walk. 
>>>>> iotw<-function(v,i,Stack,Indexes) # input: a vector and the 
>> first 
>>>> index (1), Stack=c(), Indexes=c().
>>>>> {
>>>>> 	print(Indexes)
>>>>> 	# if (sum(i)==0) break # Doesn't work...
>>>> 	if (sum(i)==0) return(NULL)
>>>>
>>>> should work.
>>>>
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>> Hmm - - - I'd like to save the Indexes-vector (in the example 
>> c(8,4,9,2,10,5,11,1,3)) and stop, when it is ready. 
>>
>> This seems more like a problem with the design of your function 
>> than a 
>> question about R.  I can't really help you with that, because your 
>> description of the problem doesn't make sense to me.  What does it 
>> mean 
>> to do an inorder tree walk on something that isn't a tree?
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> The symbols in vector v have been originally derived from "tree". See
> 
> http://users.utu.fi/attenka/Tree.jpg
> 
> But perhaps there's another way to do this, for instance by using loops and if-conditions? 

Or perhaps by doing the tree walk on the tree, before you collapse it 
into a vector.

Duncan Murdoch