Hi Steven,
In general, the command line must be incomplete (in your case, a
trailing hyphen) for the interpreter to take the next line as a
continuation.

Jim


 On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Steven Yen <sye...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a line containing summation of four components.
>
> # This works OK:
>   p<-pbivnorm(bb,dd,tau)+pbivnorm(aa,cc,tau)-
>     -pbivnorm(aa,dd,tau)-pbivnorm(bb,cc,tau)
>
> # This produces unpredicted results without warning:
>   p<-pbivnorm(bb,dd,tau)+pbivnorm(aa,cc,tau)
>     -pbivnorm(aa,dd,tau)-pbivnorm(bb,cc,tau)
>
> Is there a general rule of thumb for line breaks? Thanks you.
>

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