Good afternoon, Today I was reading the documentation
,---- | help('<<-'); `---- . The passage (I added the asterisks) The operators '' are normally only used in functions, and cause a search *to* made through parent environments for an existing definition of the variable being assigned. If such a looks like it might have wanted to have been phrased as The operators '' are normally only used in functions, and cause a search *to be* made through parent environments for an existing definition of the variable being assigned. If such a . Wanted to share that with the devs, and if that is a wanted change do people usually submit patches or what is the preferred mechanism? ,---- | sessionInfo() `---- ,---- | R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10) | Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.2.0 (64-bit) | | locale: | [1] en_US/en_US/en_US/C/en_US/en_US | | attached base packages: | [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base | | loaded via a namespace (and not attached): | [1] compiler_3.1.1 tools_3.1.1 `---- Kind regards, Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM g...@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” --Thompson ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel