Linn wrote: > Hi > Could anyone please explain to me the difference between the = and the ==? > I'm quite new to R and I've tried to find out but didn't get any wiser...
"=" is the assignment operator as in > x = 3 > x [1] 3 (but use the "<-" operator instead, see a post by Bill Venables a few days ago called ``What to use for assignment, " = " or " <- "?'') whereas "==" is the binary operator for testing equality, as in > x == 3 [1] TRUE Have a look at any introductory R book or at the R intro at http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html -- Gad Abraham Dept. CSSE and NICTA The University of Melbourne Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~gabraham ______________________________________________ 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.
