It's easier to read. Better machine-human interaction.
ergonomic: (esp. of workplace design) intended to provide optimum
comfort and to avoid stress or injury.
Quoting Wacek Kusnierczyk <waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no>:
Ken Knoblauch wrote:
Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk <at> idi.ntnu.no> writes:
Thomas Lumley wrote:
Although it's probably true that most long-time R users use <-, this
is at least in part because a long-time R user would initially have
had to use <-, since = wasn't available in the distant past.
I would say that it's entirely a matter of taste -- the things that
otherwise could have been traps are mostly syntax errors. The only
proviso is that if you post code using = it is (even more) important
to leave spaces around the = than it would be for <-.
the reason being ...?
vQ
ergonomy!
ergonomy?
vQ
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