try: ?"<<-" This is used for assigning to an object that exists in a parent environment from which you made the assigning (thus allows some playing with R's lexical scoping).
----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Ruihong Huang <ruihong.lan...@googlemail.com > wrote: > Hi, > > In my memory, "<<-" means assigning via a pointer or alias. But this is not > officially defined in "R Language Definition". Could anybody help for the > clarification? Thank you very much! > > Bests, > Ruihong > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
