From murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com  Sat Jan  4 17:55:01 2025
From: murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 11:55:01 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Fix documentation about <- and = differences
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On 2025-01-04 1:25 a.m., Philip Rogers wrote:
> Hello R devs,
> 
> this StackOverflow answer says that the R documentation is wrong:
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/51564252/1719931
> 
> Can we fi it?

By the way, the SO answer is wrong about the history of this.  It says 
that this message:  https://developer.r-project.org/equalAssign.html is 
the "original explanation by John Chambers", but in fact John committed 
the text that is still present in the docs several months earlier,
to both the `?assign` help page (rev 15467, 2001-08-13) and to the 
equalAssign.html document on developer.r-project.org (rev 608, same day).

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] Fix documentation about <- and = differences
Duncan Murdoch