That is great Stephan,
thanks a lot for your help.
best,
salih

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Stephan Kolassa <Stephan.Kolassa@gmx.de>wrote:

> Hi Salih,
>
> here you go:
>
> ############################################
> dummy <- FALSE
> for ( ii in 1:5 ) {
>  for ( jj in 3:6 ) {
>    cat("ii=",ii,"; jj=",jj,"\n",sep="")
>    if ( ii == jj ) {
>      dummy <- TRUE
>      break
>    }
>  }
>  if ( dummy ) break
> }
> ###########################################
>
> Note that I am using "ii" and "jj" as loop indices, not "i" and "j". This
> makes it a lot easier to search for the loop counter in more complex scripts
> - if you just search for "i", most of your hits will be something else than
> the loop counter.
>
>
> HTH,
> Stephan
>
>
> Am 01.06.2011 22:06, schrieb Salih Tuna:
>
>> 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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>>
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