Message-ID: <398217B3-5BB4-48AB-B594-9A559E4488E7@soc.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 2006-12-04T14:08:38Z
From: robin hankin
Subject: backticks
I noticed just now that
package.skeleton() produces R files in which
the function names are escaped with backticks.
?Quotes says that "The preferred quote is the backtick (`)",
but I don't understand _why_ this is preferred.
?formula gives some clues but points out that there
are no guarantees that formulae using non-syntactic names such as
`like this` will be accepted.
What exactly do backticks do that single or double quotes don't?
Where do I look for documentation on this?
--
Robin Hankin
Uncertainty Analyst
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK
tel 023-8059-7743