On May 7, 2014, at 3:37 PM, Hervé Pagès <hpa...@fhcrc.org> wrote: > No big deal. These things can be tricky: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2006-January/036022.html > > Sorry I couldn't resist ;-) >
Yeah, but that's just yet another trip down the rabbit hole - why is -2 parsed as `-`(2) and not a single constant? Is there a way to express a negative constant in R? Hmm… > On 05/07/2014 09:16 AM, John Chambers wrote: >> On 5/7/14, 5:21 AM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote: >>> Hadley asked about the Blue book; my shelf still has the earlier brown >>> book >>> Becker and Chambers, 1984, S: An interactive environment for data >>> analysis and graphics. >> >> Historically interesting, but there was never a guarantee that Version 3 >> of S (the "blue book") was back-compatible with earlier versions. We >> gave users some help in "getting on the road" to converting, that was >> all (see Appendix 4 to the blue book). >> >> For that one brief moment, we felt free to innovate. >> >> John >> >>> >>> The manual page for precedence is >>> >>> $ component select >>> %x special operator >>> - unary minus >>> : sequence operator >>> ^ ** exponentiation >>> * / mult/div >>> + - add/sub >>> < > <= >= == != logical >>> ! not >>> & | and/or >>> <- -> assignment >>> >>> Terry Therneau >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- > Hervé Pagès > > Program in Computational Biology > Division of Public Health Sciences > Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center > 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 > P.O. Box 19024 > Seattle, WA 98109-1024 > > E-mail: hpa...@fhcrc.org > Phone: (206) 667-5791 > Fax: (206) 667-1319 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel