[R] Noob question re: writing while loops on one line

[Sun Shine]

Thanks John: understanding it as a line return makes sense!

Cheers

Sun


On 15/02/15 14:59, John Kane wrote:
> Hi Sun,
> Can you check the code in the one line command in RStudio?
>
> I tied it and got the expected error.  Or to put it another way, it should not have run for you :)
>
> The semi-colon is funtioning as a line return
>
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: phaedrusv at gmail.com
>> Sent: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:55:28 +0000
>> To: drjimlemon at gmail.com
>> Subject: Re: [R] Noob question re: writing while loops on one line
>>
>> Brilliant Jim - that does the trick!!
>>
>> I guess then that the semi-colon rule works for any program or function
>> that is being written on one line?
>>
>> Any reason why when writing this out in the RStudio source editor no
>> semi-colon is required, but it is when written in the interactive
>> console?
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>> Sun
>>
>>
>> On 15/02/15 10:41, Jim Lemon wrote:
>>> Hi Sun,
>>> Try including a semicolon.
>>>
>>> while(count < 10) { print(count); count<-count+1 }
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Sun Shine <phaedrusv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi list
>>>>
>>>> I'm working through some exercises and did a while loop which raised an
>>>> issue for me:
>>>>
>>>> I can write out the while loop so:
>>>>
>>>>> count <- 0
>>>> while(count < 10) {
>>>>       print(count)
>>>>       count <- count + 1
>>>>      }
>>>>
>>>> And this works fine.
>>>>
>>>> Trying to do the same thing all on one line however gives this error:
>>>>
>>>> "Error: unexpected symbol in "while(count < 10) { print(count) count""
>>>>
>>>> My question:
>>>>
>>>> How can one write out a while loop all in one line? Is there a symbol
>>>> or
>>>> something that I should be including?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>>>
>>>> Sun
>>>>
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