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implicit return? [R for BE/BA]

posted by ElMaestro  – Belgium?, 2019-04-28 19:16 (586 d 03:32 ago) – Posting: # 20258
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(edited by ElMaestro on 2019-04-28 19:40)

Hi Hotzi,

I even go a step further, perhaps only because I am rather dumb.

My functions almost always look like this:
Foo=function(bar)
{
  ##blah blah, conditions and functionality and loops and loads of curly braces here.
  ##whatever happens in loops and conditions it sets a variable called e.g. rslt

  return(rslt) ##I always have a line at the end that looks like this!
}

I do that to make sure that whatever happens with pairs of curly braces I know that my function return is captured at the end. When finding errors and bugs I just need to look at rslt and work backwards. print(rslt) immediately before the return statement is often a very good beginning to that. Not sure if this is smarter (in terms of error finding) but it is my solution to a lot of trouble. Possibly just owing to my own lack of skills.

In C you can also exit with curly braces in the middle of a function. Debugging that sh!t is impossible for me.

Complete thread:

• R Inferno Helmut 2019-04-26 16:03 [R for BE/BA] 
  • full conditions! mittyri 2019-04-26 16:20
    • full conditions! Helmut 2019-04-26 16:41
    • full conditions! d_labes 2019-04-27 14:29
      • magik of R implicit return mittyri 2019-04-27 22:23
        • magik of R implicit return ElMaestro 2019-04-27 22:34
          • implicit return? d_labes 2019-04-28 19:36
            • implicit return? ElMaestro 2019-04-28 20:36
            • implicit return? Helmut 2019-04-28 20:50
              • implicit return?ElMaestro 2019-04-28 21:16
                • implicit return? Helmut 2019-04-28 23:38
                  • implicit return? ElMaestro 2019-04-29 09:40
                    • implicit return? Helmut 2019-04-29 10:41
                      • implicit return? ElMaestro 2019-04-29 12:55
                        • built-in ifelse mittyri 2019-04-30 13:05