R - Break Statement

The break statement in R programming language has the following two usages −

• When the break statement is encountered inside a loop, the loop is immediately terminated and program control resumes at the next statement following the loop.

• It can be used to terminate a case in the switch statement (covered in the next chapter).

Syntax

The basic syntax for creating a break statement in R is −

break

Flow Diagram

Example

v <- c("Hello","loop")
cnt <- 2

repeat {
   print(v)
   cnt <- cnt + 1
	
   if(cnt > 5) {
      break
   }
}

When the above code is compiled and executed, it produces the following result −

[1] "Hello" "loop" 
[1] "Hello" "loop" 
[1] "Hello" "loop" 
[1] "Hello" "loop"