I'm not an expert but some third party libraries won't recognize = as an assignment for some objects (I learned this empirically) when the assignment is made within a function. Using <- protects you from these unknows, as you have discovered on your own.
Regards David On 6/27/2011 8:34 AM, Berry Boessenkool wrote: > > Hey all, > > I learned that using the equals sign "=" to assign objects is generally OK, > but will not work in some cases. > As I always use "<-" for assignments, I have not encoutered any problems. > > Could somebody provide an example or explanation, why getting used to "=" is > not a good idea? > Or is it? > > Thanks ahead, > > Berry > > ------------------------------------- > Berry Boessenkool > University of Potsdam, Germany > ------------------------------------- > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
