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"Prof J C Nash (U30A)" <nas...@uottawa.ca> wrote: >I'm wondering what the purpose of the back-quoting of the name is, >since >benchmark seems a valid name. The language reference does mention >back-quoting names to make them syntactic names, but I found no >explanation of the "why". > >Can someone give a concise reason? > >JN > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.