R Error: unexpected ‘}’ in Code (2 Examples)
In this R article you’ll learn how to fix the error message “unexpected ‘}’ in X”.
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Example 1: Reproduce the Error – unexpected ‘}’ in X
This Example illustrates how to reproduce the R programming error “unexpected ‘}’ in X”. Consider the following if statement:
if(TRUE) { "x" }} # Reproducing the error # Error: unexpected '}' in "if(TRUE) { "x" }}"
The RStudio console returned the error message “unexpected ‘}’ in X”.
The reason for this is that we used one curly bracket too much at the end of our code. This can easily happen when if else statements or in user-defined functions are getting more complex.
Example 2: Fix the Error – unexpected ‘}’ in X
Example 2 shows how to properly apply curly brackets in R. Compare the following syntax with the R code of Example 1:
if(TRUE) { "x" } # Fixing the error # [1] "x"
This time, the if statement worked fine, because we used only one curly bracket at the end of our code.
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I’m Joachim Schork. On this website, I provide statistics tutorials as well as code in Python and R programming.
