The function 'benchmark' which is the only one in package 'rbenchmark'
has a back-quoted name in its first line
`benchmark` <- function( ....
I wondered whether this had specific importance. It appears not.
JN
On 13-10-08 11:15 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
Your use of the English language is failing to communicate. You mention "the name" when
"name" is not a proper noun. Are you referring to some specific example?
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"Prof J C Nash (U30A)" <nas...@uottawa.ca> wrote:
I'm wondering what the purpose of the back-quoting of the name is,
since
benchmark seems a valid name. The language reference does mention
back-quoting names to make them syntactic names, but I found no
explanation of the "why".
Can someone give a concise reason?
JN
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