should the text for RIGHT_ASSIGN be -> in getParseData()?
On 05/07/2013 12:29 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
R itself doesn't make use of the text column, it's for display of code by highlighters etc. So if anyone does assume text is a function name, it's their bug, not ours. In fact, the bug is already there, because there is actually one other example which was being parsed properly, "**" is translated to "^". There's no `**` function, but 2**3 works.
Is there any reason right-assign with "->" still exists? How much code on CRAN uses it, and how trivially could it be excised?
Dozens of packages on CRAN use it: abc, abd, adabag, AdaptFitOS, bgeva, ...
Can we also have 'up assign' and "down assign" so I can do:
> 3 > x -^ > x -v > 4
- they make just as much sense.
I'll work on those; they sound easier than excising right-assign. Duncan
Okay, lets see all the edge cases..... Barry