[R] How to comment in R

Wacek Kusnierczyk Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk at idi.ntnu.no
Wed Feb 11 22:43:35 CET 2009


Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>>>
>>> So if the behaviour isn't very obvious in cases like the one quoted
>>> above, and if the new syntax doesn't add any new expressiveness, I
>>> would be opposed to adding it.
>>
>> what about cases where the syntax is 'obvious' and yet r does the
>> opposite of what one would expect?
>
> We shouldn't add features like that either.  In some cases we have (or
> S did), and the thousands of CRAN packages mean we're stuck with most
> of them.

the curse of popularity?

vQ




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