[ESS] indentation after an incomplete assignment?

[Yihui Xie]

Thank you all for the kind suggestions. I often use Richard's
approach, although it makes the code one line "longer" than usual.

I knew I would be asked why I used = rather than <-. I'm just an
outlier. I first learned S-Plus about 7 years ago and at that time I
was taught to use _ for assignment; later in another class I learned _
could be replaced by <-. Since = was used in all other languages I
learned and both _ and <- were difficult to type, I wondered for a
long time why we could not use =, which turned out to be false -- I
was excited that = could be used in R. Then I was stuck. I guess all
of you recognize the poem below :)

[...]
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Regards,
Yihui
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Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA



On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:
> I normally use these linebreaks to get sensible indentation.
>
>  matrix(data=c(
>               1, 2, 3,
>               4, 5, 6,
>               7, 8, 9),
>        byrow=TRUE,
>        nrow=3)
>
> Similarly for list()
>
> xy <- data.frame(x=1:3, y=3:5)
> abcd <- xyplot(y ~ x, data=xy,
>               scales=list(
>                 x=list(at=0:6),
>                 y=list(at=0:6)))
> Rich
>
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