Petter Hedberg wrote: > I´m a PhD student at the University of Warsaw, and have started using R. > In many books they specify to use <- instead of = when assigning > values, and this is also mentioned in older posts on the R website. > > However, it seams to me that some update has occured, becuase I > continously get the same result wether I use <- or =. > > I would be extremely helpful for any answer to this. > = seams more intuitive, so I assumed that an update had been made due > to popular demand and that was why I get the same output wether I use > <- or =. > >
czesc, <- and = are not exactly equivalent. while in many situations you may use = instead of <-, in some you can't: x <- 1 x = 1 # same thing foo = function(a) ... foo(x <- 2) # assign to x, and pass it to foo as the argument a foo(x = 2) # pass 2 to foo as the argument x personally, i prefer = to <- wherever possible, but some on this list have expressed the opinion that such code is rather annoying. it seems to be a matter of taste, but you may want to stay in the mainstream and get used to <-. vQ ______________________________________________ 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.
