[R] Maximum No.of code in R

Petr PIKAL petr.pikal at precheza.cz
Mon Sep 21 10:21:41 CEST 2009


Well, code with 50+ ifelse statements (probably nested) seems to me quite 
weird. I believe that such scheme could be solved differently but without 
real code it is nothing to suggest.

r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 18.09.2009 13:51:45:

> On 9/18/2009 5:49 AM, premmad wrote:
> > I tried running 50 lines of ifelse statement in R and the system says 
context
> > stack overflow at 50 line.Is it the limitation of R or is there any 
way
> > around that can be done to overcome this.Thanks
> 
> You can always break it up into multiple lines.  For example, the 
> following are equivalent if we ignore the presence of the temp variable 
> in the second case.
> 
> x <- ifelse(a, b, ifelse(c, d, e))
> 
> and
> 
> temp <- ifelse(c, d, e)
> x <- ifelse(a, b, temp)
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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