[R] Problems with code containing a for loop

[Erik Iverson]

Because you missed your closing parens in the "text" function call. The closing parens is closing the "paste" function, you need one more.  I don't know what you're trying to do here, but I am guessing there's a faster way?  

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> On Behalf Of Antje##
> Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 10:37 AM
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> Subject: [R] Problems with code containing a for loop
> 
> 
> The following code isn't working and we can't figure out why..
> 
> letters = c("A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J")
> numbers = 1:3
> 
> for(i in 1:6){                       #6 letters
>                 for (j in 1:3) {                   #3 numbers
>                     for (k in -1:1) {             #answer -1,right or +1
>                           fn = paste (i,j,k,".bmp",sep="")
>                           bmp(file = fn)
>                           plot(x = 10, y = 10, ylim=c(0,1), xlim=c(0,1),
> axes=FALSE, ylab="", xlab="")
>                           text(0.5,0.5, text = paste(letters[i], "+",
> numbers[j],"=", letters [i+j+k])
>                           dev.off()
>                                      }
>                                }
>                            }
> 
> We get the following errors:
> Error: unexpected symbol in:
> "                          text(0.5,0.5, text = paste(letters[i], "+",
> numbers[j],"=", letters [i+j+k])
>                           dev.off"
> >                                      }
> Error: unexpected '}' in "                                     }"
> >                                }
> Error: unexpected '}' in "                               }"
> >                            }
> Error: unexpected '}' in "                           }"
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