> On Dec 15, 2015, at 9:21 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > >> On Dec 15, 2015, at 8:54 AM, Clint Bowman <cl...@ecy.wa.gov> wrote: >> >> Martin, >> >> I grew up in the Midwest of the United States--about as native English >> speaker as you could find. I was taught exactly the same as you have >> learned. > > As with your experience, Clint and Martin, but my online experience is that > those speaking "English English" often refer to "(" as "brackets". As a > result I generally now call them square-brackets to avoid ambiguity.
I intended to say that I call "[" and "]" square-brackets. -- > David. > >> >> Clint >> >> Clint Bowman INTERNET: cl...@ecy.wa.gov >> Air Quality Modeler INTERNET: cl...@math.utah.edu >> Department of Ecology VOICE: (360) 407-6815 >> PO Box 47600 FAX: (360) 407-7534 >> Olympia, WA 98504-7600 >> >> USPS: PO Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600 >> Parcels: 300 Desmond Drive, Lacey, WA 98503-1274 >> >> On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Martin Maechler wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> [............] >>> >>>> You are missing the closing bracket on the boxplot() >>>> command. Just finish with a ')' >>> >>> Hmm... I once learned >>> >>> '()' =: parenthesis/es >>> '[]' =: bracket(s) >>> '{}' =: brace(s) >>> >>> Of course, I'm not a native English speaker, and my teacher(s) / >>> teaching material may have been biased ... but, as all three >>> symbol pairs play an important role in R, I think it would be >>> really really helpful, if we could agree on using the same >>> precise English here. >>> >>> I'm happy to re-learn, but I'd really like to end up with three >>> different simple English words, if possible. >>> (Yes, I know and have seen/heard "curly braces", "round >>> parentheses", ... but I'd hope we can do without the extra adjective.) >>> >>> Thank you, well versed English (or "American") learned readers >>> of R-help, for wise guidance on this ... >>> >>> Martin >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> 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. >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.