[R] Undestanding return()

[Uwe Ligges]

On 26.04.2011 23:08, jim holtman wrote:
> As soon as you execute the 'return' , the value is returned.

Right, and nothing else will be evaluated after the first return() was 
evaluated.

Uwe Ligges



 >  What you
> did not show is did the code have if-then-else to go down separate
> paths.
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Bogaso Christofer
> <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Here, I have following generic function:
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>> Fn1<- function(x) {
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>>                 ........
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>>                 return(x)  # assume x is calculated in previous steps
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>>                 .........
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>>                 return(y)  # assume y is calculated in previous steps
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>>
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>>                 ..........
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>>                 return(z)  # assume z is calculated in previous steps
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>> }
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>>
>> In this case what fn1 will return. Is it the value of "x" all the time? And
>> hence this function will never calculate y and z?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
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