I think there are two possibilities: (1) package.skeleton() can produce this; (2) the package author prefers this style. Back-quoting is often unnecessary, unless the object name is not valid without back-quoting, e.g.,
> `a b` <- 1:2 > ls() [1] "a b" > a b Error: unexpected symbol in "a b" > `a b` [1] 1 2 > %in% Error: unexpected SPECIAL in "%in%" > `%in%` function (x, table) match(x, table, nomatch = 0L) > 0L <environment: namespace:base> Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) <nas...@uottawa.ca> wrote: > The function 'benchmark' which is the only one in package 'rbenchmark' has a > back-quoted name in its first line > > `benchmark` <- function( .... > > I wondered whether this had specific importance. It appears not. > > JN > > > > On 13-10-08 11:15 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: >> >> Your use of the English language is failing to communicate. You mention >> "the name" when "name" is not a proper noun. Are you referring to some >> specific example? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go >> Live... >> DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live >> Go... >> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing >> Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with >> /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. >> rocks...1k >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> "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.
