Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk <at> idi.ntnu.no> writes:
> equal? you mean equivalent? mostly, yes. briefly, this is why: > > 1. a copy-over from other programming languages; > 2. to avoid learning yet another operator; > 3. after having learned the other operator, to avoid that ugly operator; > 4. after an r guru complained here about people using this instead of > that, to annoy him. :-) It's always fun to read.... Dieter ______________________________________________ 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.