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1. Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2019 10:22:49 CET Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

   Why would anyone code in #R ?

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2019 10:37:55 CET Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

     in reply to

     I mean "<-"

     WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?

     Go home R, you are drunk.

   • alan@mastodon.technology's status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2019 11:52:12 CET alan

     in reply to

     @ekaitz_zarraga <- is used to distinguish name assignment from keyword arguments assignment in function calls. f(k = 1, z = y <- 3) will work as expected with the z argument having y as value that will be resolved to 3.

     There are historical reasons for this and one of them is that R is lispy enough to have similar quirks. The issue is that most R users are not trained to code in a functional way, but you can do pretty powerful stuff with it.

     With RStudio alt + - gives you <-

     Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 and Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 repeated this.
   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2019 11:54:50 CET Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

     in reply to

     • alan

     @alan Thanks for the explanation. It's really cool.

     It's quite a weird syntax isn't it?

     I'm now very critic with all this because I discovered lisp and everything is worse.

     Yes, the most logical syntax I know is lisp's. I'm that kind of person.