I disagree. Assignments in my code are all lines that look like this: variable = expression
They are easy to find and easy to read. -----Original Message----- From: Ista Zahn [mailto:istaz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 3:36p To: Steve Taylor Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] the less-than-minus gotcha On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Steve Taylor <steve.tay...@aut.ac.nz> wrote: Fair enough, but you skipped right past the most important one: it makes code easier to read. It's very nice to be able to visually scan through the code and easily see where assignment happens. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.