On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Rolf Turner <rolf.tur...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> On 22/04/11 07:08, Cliff Clive wrote:
>>
>> I've been reading some code from an example in a blog post (
>> http://www.maxdama.com/ here ) and I came across an operator that I hadn't
>> seen before. The author used a<<- operator to update a variable, like so:
>>
>> ecov_xy<<- ecov_xy+decay*(x[t]*y[t]-ecov_xy)
>>
>> At first I thought it was a mistake and tried replacing it with the
>> usual<-
>> assignment operator, but I didn't get the same results. So what does the
>> double arrow<<- operator do?
>
> Install the "fortunes" (if you haven't already) and see:
>
> fortune("<<-")
>
But note that in the quote Bill says "R/S" and it's dated 2001, so
it's primarily based on experience with S. In S you don't have
enclosing environments so only the Evil and Wrong uses of
superassignment are possible.
-thomas
--
Thomas Lumley
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Auckland
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