advice/opinion on "<-" vs "=" in teaching R
On 01/15/2010 10:08 PM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
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...."
This is, of course, entirely consistent with the concept of outliers as potentially patentable discoveries that was discussed only a few days ago... Jim