I'm embarrassed that I'm asking this question, but here I go:

Suppose you have the following function foo. When I'm running a for loop, I'd like it to skip the remainder of foo when foo initially returns the value of 0. However, break doesn't work when it's inside a function.

As it's currently written, I get an error message, no loop to break from, jumping to top level.

Any suggestions?

foo <- function(x) {
    y <- x-2
    if (y==0) {break} # how do I tell the for loop to skip this
    z <- y + 100
    z
}


for (i in 1:3) {
    print(foo(i))
}