R help - Sep 2009 - Which one shall I use? '=' or '<-'?

Hi,

I was told to use  "<-" instead of "=" in the mailing
list. I am
wondering what the difference between them?

Regards,
Peng

I don't have the link off the top of my head, but if you search the 
archives and look for 'R Google Style Guide' or 'Google R Style'
there
was quite an interesting conversation thread regarding the use of the 
two, mostly for readability purposes...

-cj

Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was told to use  "<-" instead of "=" in the
mailing list. I am
> wondering what the difference between them?
>
> Regards,
> Peng
>
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>

I wrote a post on the Revolutions blog a little while back discussing
the difference between the two (and the history of the <- operator).
You can find it on blog.revolution-computing.com at:
http://bit.ly/3YWw3R

# David Smith

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was told to use ?"<-" instead of "=" in the
mailing list. I am
> wondering what the difference between them?
>
> Regards,
> Peng
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at 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.
>


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