How to use the switch statement in R functions?

Question

I would like to use for my function in R the statement switch() to trigger different computation according to the value of the function\'s argument.

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Answer 1

This is a more general answer to the missing "Select cond1, stmt1, ... else stmtelse" connstruction in R. It's a bit gassy, but it works an resembles the switch statement present in C

while (TRUE) {
  if (is.na(val)) {
    val <- "NULL"
    break
  }
  if (inherits(val, "POSIXct") || inherits(val, "POSIXt")) {
    val <- paste0("#",  format(val, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), "#")
    break
  }
  if (inherits(val, "Date")) {
    val <- paste0("#",  format(val, "%Y-%m-%d"), "#")
    break
  }
  if (is.numeric(val)) break
  val <- paste0("'", gsub("'", "''", val), "'")
  break
}