R help - Oct 2001 - Grow up and use ESS already (was RE: about the char _)

> Members of the Pascal family have that same quirk [there, 
> assignment is  :=  ].  I admit to being a lazy typist (as have others 
> here), and that quirk used to annoy me.  But I'd expect that most R 
> code actually gets written in someone's favorite editor, and that 
> that editor almost certainly has the ability to define the 
> string "<-" 
> as a keyboard macro.  That's how I learned to live with ":=" 
> through several incarnations of Pascal.
In deed...  In S-mode under ESS (5.1.19), typing "_" automagically
gives "
<- ".  Note the extra spaces for readibility!  It's also smart
enough to
leave "_" inside quotes alone.

Andy

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