Thank you all for the reply. I´ll start using <-. Best regards,
Petter Hedberg University of Warsaw. 2008/12/16 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com>: > In most cases <- and = are the same yet its not always > true so its safest to use <- for assignment. > > Check this out: > > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e4/help/08/06/12940.html > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Petter Hedberg <ekologkons...@gmail.com> > 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 =. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Petter Hedberg >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > ______________________________________________ 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.