[R] Undestanding return()

[jim holtman]

As soon as you execute the 'return' , the value is returned.  What you
did not show is did the code have if-then-else to go down separate
paths.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Bogaso Christofer
<bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here, I have following generic function:
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> Fn1 <- function(x) {
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>                ........
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>                return(x)  # assume x is calculated in previous steps
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>                .........
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>                return(y)  # assume y is calculated in previous steps
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>                ..........
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>                return(z)  # assume z is calculated in previous steps
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> }
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> In this case what fn1 will return. Is it the value of "x" all the time? And
> hence this function will never calculate y and z?
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> Thanks and regards,
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Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

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