[R] In praise of ->

[Murray Jorgensen]

Liaw, Andy wrote:


 > This is also easily accomodated w/o the use of ->:  Instead of
 >
 > MyValue -> fred
 > [code that follows]
 >
 > use:
 >
 > fred <-
 > MyValue
 > [code that follows]
 >
 > Andy

The point is that

-> fred
[code that follows]

is sitting as one piece in the clipboard. So instead of

3 <paste>
8 <paste>
etc

you need to do

fred -> 3 <paste>
fred -> 8 <paste>
etc

Not a big saving, but some of us are lazy!


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