R devel - Jan 2025 - Fix documentation about <- and = differences

Hello R devs,

this StackOverflow answer says that the R documentation is wrong: 
https://stackoverflow.com/a/51564252/1719931

Can we fi it?

Best,

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On 2025-01-04 1:25 a.m., Philip Rogers wrote:
> Hello R devs,
> 
> this StackOverflow answer says that the R documentation is wrong:
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/51564252/1719931
> 
> Can we fi it?
Why do you think the SO answer is right and the docs are wrong?  Maybe 
the parser is just missing a user error.

My own feeling is that any use of "=" as an assignment operator is too
much.

Duncan Murdoch

On 2025-01-04 1:25 a.m., Philip Rogers wrote:
> Hello R devs,
> 
> this StackOverflow answer says that the R documentation is wrong:
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/51564252/1719931
> 
> Can we fi it?
By the way, the SO answer is wrong about the history of this.  It says 
that this message:  https://developer.r-project.org/equalAssign.html is 
the "original explanation by John Chambers", but in fact John
committed
the text that is still present in the docs several months earlier,
to both the `?assign` help page (rev 15467, 2001-08-13) and to the 
equalAssign.html document on developer.r-project.org (rev 608, same day).

Duncan Murdoch