R help - Jul 2002 - "_"

If I remember correctly, every time the dreaded "_" arises as an 
assignment operator in polite emails, the advantage of last resort cited 
in its defence is that it is only a single (albeit shifted) keystroke. I 
can only speak for the excellent NEdit, but it is a trivial task to assign 
some otherwise unloved key (my favorite is that funny accent at the left 
of the digit row) to perform the herculean task of typing "<-". 

Jim
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On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Jim Lemon wrote:
> If I remember correctly, every time the dreaded "_" arises as an
> assignment operator in polite emails, the advantage of last resort cited
> in its defence is that it is only a single (albeit shifted) keystroke. I
> can only speak for the excellent NEdit, but it is a trivial task to assign
> some otherwise unloved key (my favorite is that funny accent at the left
> of the digit row) to perform the herculean task of typing
"<-".
>
In ESS the default is to use the shifted key to the right of 0 [on my
keyboard] to produce the <-, which is even easier to remember :^)

	-thomas

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Hello,

This is to protest deprecating the nice one stroke '_' !!!
Marwan Khawaja


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>Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:14:55 +1000
>From: Bill.Venables at cmis.csiro.au
>Sbject: RE: [R] modifying a vector
>Peter Dalgaard notes:
> > Note that "_" is assignment in S (and hence R, sigh...).
>
> Soon to be deprecated, though... (but it will probably take a while
> before we can reintroduce it as part of variable names).
>
	[WNV]   Indeed it may, so much so that I am surprised such a change
is even on the agenda.  We may agree that using "_" a the assignment
operator can make code difficult to read, but many people do use it, and
often with some enthusiasm.  It looks a bit to me like unscrambling the egg.
Let me be clear about this: I really do dislike the thing and I'm not about
to argue that it should be left untouched.   I'm just very surprised there
isn't an enormous howl of protest already...

	Are we also about to allow spaces in names and the "=" sign as yet
another alternative form of the left assignment operator, as in S4?  Should
be even more interesting.

	Bill Venables.
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