[R] Iterations

Michael Rennie mdrennie at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 19:39:11 CEST 2008


for(1 in 1:10)
     {
     print(i)
     }

Mike

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM,  <rkevinburton at charter.net> wrote:
> I have a command that reads in some data:
>
> x <- read.csv("Sales2007.dat", header=TRUE)
>
> Then I try to organize the data:
>
> sc <- split(x, list(x$Category, x$SubCategory), drop=TRUE)
>
> Then I want to iterate through the data. I was able to get the following to run on the R console:
>
> for(i in 1:length(sc))
> {
>    sum(sc[[i]]$Quantity)
> }
>
> But notiing is primted on the console. I find that:
>
> for(i in 1:100)
> {
>    i
> }
>
> Also does't output anything? I am probably making a wrong assumption here. Why desn't the loop seem to output anyything?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kevin
>
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