Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk <at> idi.ntnu.no> writes:
> > Thomas Lumley wrote: > > > > Although it's probably true that most long-time R users use <-, this > > is at least in part because a long-time R user would initially have > > had to use <-, since = wasn't available in the distant past. > > > > I would say that it's entirely a matter of taste -- the things that > > otherwise could have been traps are mostly syntax errors. The only > > proviso is that if you post code using = it is (even more) important > > to leave spaces around the = than it would be for <-. > > the reason being ...? > > vQ > ergonomy! -- Ken Knoblauch Inserm U846 Stem-cell and Brain Research Institute Department of Integrative Neurosciences 18 avenue du Doyen Lépine 69500 Bron France tel: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 77 fax: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 61 portable: +33 (0)6 84 10 64 10 http://www.sbri.fr/members/kenneth-knoblauch.html ______________________________________________ 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.