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Flow control statements are used to repeat a series of tasks a number of times or to direct flow based on a logical object. For persons who came into programming in the age of FORTRAN and BASIC, using loops is very comfortable. In R, the better choice, if possible, is to use arrays and index selection instead of looping. Using indices is much faster than looping.
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© 2014 Margot Tollefson
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Tollefson, M. (2014). Flow Control. In: R Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6641-9_12
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