[Grammar] Articles again: please check this sentence

[nyggus]

Hi,

Please have a look at the following sentence:

Consider a dataset with values of all variables X, Y, and Z. Values of variable X are in the first row of the dataset; values of variable Y, in the rows from N1+1 to N2; and values of variable Z, in the rows from N2+1 to N3.
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Please check the use of articles (both used and omitted) in this sentence.

Thanks,
nyggus

 

[jutfrank]

That's fine.

 

[nyggus]

That's fine.

Thanks a lot. Would be OK to write "values of the variable X", or rather we should not use the definite article in such cases (as I did)?

Similarly, moving to programming, can I write "using the loop for" or rather "using loop for" - here for is the name of a particular command. Or, can I write, "In R, you can simulate the normal distribution with the command rnorm," or I should remove the emboldened article?

 

[jutfrank]

Would be OK to write "values of the variable X", or rather we should not use the definite article in such cases (as I did)?

You don't need the article here.

can I write "using the loop for" or rather "using loop for" - here for is the name of a particular command.

Yes, it's better to use the article here...

can I write, "In R, you can simulate the normal distribution with the command rnorm," or I should remove the emboldened article?

...and here.

 

[GoesStation]

I think you mean using the for loop or more likely using a for loop.