advice/opinion on "<-" vs "=" in teaching R
Barry Rowlingson wrote:
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at gmail.com>wrote:
Hi R People: I'm teaching a statistical computing class using R starting next week (yay!) and I have an opinion type question, please. I'm old school and use "<-" in an assignment.
You call that 'old school'?? I still use ' x_1'! Of course ESS turns the underscore into '<-' magically. Perhaps these guys should redo their tests with slightly different syntax: http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf Barry
I do like their experimental design:
"In a bizarre event which one of the authors insists was planned, and
the other maintains was a really stupid idea that just happened to work,
the test was ?rst administered to about 30 students on a...."
("Like" in the sense of being amused, of course)
-p
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