[R] stop() vs. error() ?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

That's called q() in R.

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, ivo welch wrote:

> 
> hi andy:  mea culpa.  it is the exit function in most other languages.  
> It would be exit(0) invocation in C (C++) and perl, for example.
> 
> regards, /iaw
> 
> Liaw, Andy wrote:
> 
> >So you still have not told us what exactly what you are looking for.  What
> >do you want some sort of stop() to do inside a function, that is neither an
> >error nor returning?  Can you show an example in some other language that
> >has such a feature?

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