require("fortunes")
Loading required package: fortunes
>fortune("<<-")
I wish <<- had never been invented, as it makes an esoteric and dangerous
feature of the language *seem* normal and reasonable. If you want to dumb down
R/S into a macro language, this is the operator for you.
-- Bill Venables
R-help (July 2001)
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:14 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 2, 2012, at 13:35 , Hadley Wickham wrote:
>
>>>> What is the special meaning for the method name start with a dot?
>>>
>>> It means nothing in particular, except that such objects don't show up in
>>> ls() by default. The _intention_ is usually that the function is only to be
>>> used internally and not for end-user use.
>>
>> But these days, if you're writing a package, you're better off using
>> namespaces.
>
> Sure, but that doesn't keep package writers from using that kind of naming
> convention for non-exported objects. (Notice that this started as a question
> about reading 3rd party source codes.)
>
> --
> Peter Dalgaard, Professor
> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> Phone: (+45)38153501
> Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com
>
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