R help - Jun 2011 - Force the for loop to stop

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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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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