On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:16:21 -0800 John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> wrote:
... > > I have lived next door to the USA for most of my life and never > realized that American usage is 'brackets' for [ ] . I would use > the term brackets in normal use for ( ) and "square brackets for [ ]. > ... There's a lot of fog in the air. Properly, the use in the USA is as described by Martin. But ever since the late '60s there has been a de-emphasis of linguistic precision and a tendency to "good enough." Sad. JWDougherty ______________________________________________ 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.
