[ESS] underscore mapped to <-

[Marc Schwartz]

On Nov 4, 2010, at 6:28 PM, claudia tebaldi wrote:

> Dear all
> 
> one of the R packages I use frequently has just been updated to a version
> where many of the function names now contain the underscore character.
> Every time I try to use one, ESS changes the underscore into the assignment
> sign <-, which up until now I though was cool (being an old user of R I
> often type the underscore for assignment purposes).
> I'm not sure how to change the mapping of _ to <- or otherwise get around
> this feature and be able to use those functions.
> 
> Thank you for your help!
> 
> Claudia

Claudia,

Just hit the underscore key twice in succession and you will get the underscore character, rather than the assignment operator.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz