Hi Stephan,
Thanks a lot. But i am not very good at R yet so i dont know how to set the
dummy variable to FALSE. Can you please help me with that as well?

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Stephan Kolassa <Stephan.Kolassa@gmx.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> you could set a dummy variable to FALSE outside the outermost loop. If the
> break condition is met in the inner loop, set the dummy variable to TRUE
> before breaking and test its truth status in the outer loop.
>
> HTH
> Stephan
>
>
> Am 01.06.2011 21:25, schrieb Salih Tuna:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am looking for a command in R that would force the for loop to stop
>> after
>> it finds what it is looking for.
>> As an example
>> for(i in 1:5){
>>    for(j in 3:6){
>>       if(i==j)
>>         # do something...
>>        break;
>> }
>> }
>> And i don't want the loop to execute once i = 3 and stop.
>>
>> Is there a way to do this?
>>
>> best,
>> salih
>>
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