[R] return from nested function?

[Jan T. Kim]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:21:44PM -0800, Seth Falcon wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2005, at 12:34 PM, jhallman at frb.gov wrote:
> 
> >Is is possible from within a function to cause its caller to return()?
> 
> This snippet may be of interest:
> 
> 
> > f = function(x) {
> + print("f")
> + g(return())
> + print("end of f")
> + }
> 
> > g=function(x) {print("g")
> + x
> + print("end of g")
> + }
> 
> > f(1)
> [1] "f"
> [1] "g"
> NULL

I may be dumb today, but doesn't that beg the question of how does g
cause f not to return?

Best regards, Jan
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