On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > > > [............] > > > You are missing the closing bracket on the boxplot() > > command. Just finish with a ')' > > Hmm... I once learned > > '()' =: parenthesis/es > '[]' =: bracket(s) > '{}' =: brace(s) > > Of course, I'm not a native English speaker, and my teacher(s) / > teaching material may have been biased ... but, as all three > symbol pairs play an important role in R, I think it would be > really really helpful, if we could agree on using the same > precise English here. > > I'm happy to re-learn, but I'd really like to end up with three > different simple English words, if possible. > (Yes, I know and have seen/heard "curly braces", "round > parentheses", ... but I'd hope we can do without the extra adjective.)
I think this is what Americans are taught, but I can never remember which is which. I use round brackets, square brackets, and squiggly brackets, which are memorable, and even if you're not familiar with the terms you can easily understand what I mean. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.