Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodg...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi R People:
>>
>> I'm teaching a statistical computing class using R starting next week
>> (yay!) and I have an opinion type question, please.
>>
>> I'm old school and use "<-" in an assignment.
>>
>>
> You call that 'old school'?? I still use ' x_1'! Of course ESS turns the
> underscore into '<-' magically.
>
> Perhaps these guys should redo their tests with slightly different syntax:
>
> http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf
>
> Barry
>
I do like their experimental design:
"In a bizarre event which one of the authors insists was planned, and
the other maintains was a really stupid idea that just happened to work,
the test was first administered to about 30 students on a...."
("Like" in the sense of being amused, of course)
-p
--
O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B
c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K
(*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918
~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
______________________________________________
R-help@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
