From: Murray Jorgensen This is not a problem, but I thought that I might say one or two things in favour of right pointing assignment before anybody influential gets the idea of scrapping it! Situation (a) You have just typed a long complcated expression into the console and you suddenly realise that you will need it later in the session. Just append -> something to the end of the expression. You can do this with any recently evaluated expression with the help of the up-arrow key (in Windows at least).
You can do this just as easily in two ways: 1. IforgotThis <- .Last.value [This always works, even if command editing is not available.] 2. If command line editing is available, hit [up-arrow], [home] (or ctrl-a) then type IforgotThis = ...
Situation (b) You have written a chunk of code and you want to see how it behaves for various values of the scalar "fred". Just put -> fred at the start of the code block, type any number, then paste the code into the console.
This is also easily accomodated w/o the use of ->: Instead of MyValue -> fred [code that follows] use: fred <- MyValue [code that follows] Andy
Cheers, Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk +64 7 849 6486 home Mobile 021 1395 862
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