On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
Judging from the traffic on this mailing list, a lot of R beginners
are trying to write things like
assign( paste( "myvar", i), ...)
where they really should probably be writing
myvar[i] <- ...
Do we have any idea where this bizarre habit comes from?
I think it comes from the macro languages in SAS and Stata (and perhaps SPSS)
where this sort of thing is a natural idiom.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlum...@u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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