I see 'The R Inferno' being refered quiet often recently. But it was now pointed by Duncan Murdoch that for example the statement concerning variables in a for loop is not correct in there (page 62). As I can not find any information about the book been reviewed by anyone I have a question: is it reliable resource for learning about R? What is the authority of Patrick Burns? I would like to avoid spending much time on learning from 'The R Inferno' to only later discover that it was wrong.
Mvh. Marie On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Patrick Burns <pbu...@pburns.seanet.com>wrote: > 'The R Inferno' pages 45-46. > > > Patrick Burns > patr...@burns-stat.com > +44 (0)20 8525 0696 > http://www.burns-stat.com > (home of "The R Inferno" and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") > > Nick Matzke wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Working at the R command line, how do I get strings to display e.g. tab or >> newline characters as they should be displayed, rather than as e.g. \n or >> \t? >> >> e.g.: >> > x="\t" >> > x="\t" >> > x >> [1] "\t" >> > print(x) >> [1] "\t" >> >> > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
