I agree and personally never do this but I would still like to know if it is guaranteed behavior or not.
On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 11:28 AM Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> wrote: > IMHO this is just bad practice. Whether the result is guaranteed or not, > doesn't matter. > > ir. Thierry Onkelinx > Statisticus / Statistician > > Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders > INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND > FOREST > Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance > thierry.onkel...@inbo.be > Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel > www.inbo.be > > > /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more > than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say > what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher > The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner > The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not > ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. > ~ John Tukey > > /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > > <https://www.inbo.be> > > > Op vr 27 aug. 2021 om 17:18 schreef Gabor Grothendieck < > ggrothendi...@gmail.com>: > >> Are there any guarantees of whether x will equal 1 or 2 after this is run? >> >> (x <- 1) * (x <- 2) >> ## [1] 2 >> x >> ## [1] 2 >> >> -- >> Statistics & Software Consulting >> GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. >> tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP >> email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
