[R] for loop should check the looping index !!

[Tony Plate]

Yep, you missed the fact that 2:1 generates the sequence c(2,1).

Personally, I'd excuse you for missing this, as the documentation for 
seq says:

      The operator ':' and the 'seq(from, to)' form generate the
      sequence 'from, from+1, ..., to'.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see anywhere on the help page 
for seq and ":" any mention of the fact the seq() generates a descending 
sequence if 'to' is less than 'from'.

In programming, *never* use a construct like 1:length(x) or 2:length(x), 
always using something like seq(1,len=length(x)) (or simply 
seq(len=length(x)), or seq(2, len=length(x)-1) or seq(along=x)[-1].

-- Tony Plate


johan Faux wrote:
> Hello ,
>    
>   a<-c(1)
>   for(i in 2:length(a))
>       do.something with a[[i]]
>    
>   I get :
>   Error in a[[i]] : subscript out of bounds
>    
>   Am I missing something here?  Doesnt R check the value of i inside "for" and if the condition is not tru, dont do anything ????
>    
>   thanks,
>   johan
> 
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