R Error: Unexpected else in “else” (2 Examples)
In this R tutorial you’ll learn how to solve the error unexpected else in “else”.
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Example 1: Reproduce the Error – unexpected else in “else”
The following code illustrates how to replicate the error message unexpected else in “else” in R. Let’s assume we want to create an if else statement:
if(TRUE) { # Reproducing the error "x" } else { "y" } # Error: unexpected 'else' in "else"
Gosh! We received an error message!
The reason for this error is that we didn’t write the else statement to the same line as the closing curly bracket of the if statement.
I’ll show you how to fix this issue in the following example…
Example 2: Fix the Error – unexpected else in “else”
Example 2 explains how to deal with the error message unexpected else in “else”. Let’s again run our if else statement, but this time we are executing the else statement one line higher:
if(TRUE) { # Fixing the error "x" } else { "y" } # [1] "x"
Works fine!
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I’m Joachim Schork. On this website, I provide statistics tutorials as well as code in Python and R programming.
6 Comments. Leave new
#no is divisible by 2 or 3
x=99
if(x%%2==0)
{
print(“x is divisible by 2”)
}
else if(x%%3==0)
{
print(“x is divisible by 3”)
}
else
{
print(“no is neither divisible by 2 nor by 3”)
}
when we run this code, r studio will give output as a error which is written below
Error: unexpected ‘else’ in “else”
please solve my problem
Hey Farhan,
I think the way how you are using escape in your code is flawed.
Please try the following R code:
Regards,
Joachim
Hi,
x <- -1
if (x < 0){
print("x is a negative number")
} else if (x == 0) {
print(" x is zero number")
} else {
print ("x is a positive number")
}
I am getting the error "unexpected 'else'
16: }
17: else"
Kindly help.
Regards,
Nandita
Hey Nandita,
The code you have provided works fine. Are you sure that the error is due to these lines of code?
Regards,
Joachim
thanks
You are very welcome Hamza, glad it was helpful!