On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Martin Maechler > <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> 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.) > > I think this is what Americans are taught, but I can never remember > which is which. I use round brackets, square brackets, and squiggly > brackets, which are memorable, and even if you're not familiar with > the terms you can easily understand what I mean.
I should mention that all three terms have accompanying arm motions ;) Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.