You might want to look at the answers to that question on stackoverflow.com: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2628621
Hadley On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:59 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. > -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.