>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:36:19 +0200 writes:
>>>>> "Spencer" == Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:54:22 -0700 writes:
Spencer> Consider
Spencer> Q <- function(x)q("no")
Spencer> With R 1.7.1 under Windows, "Q()" caused R to close
Spencer> without asking for confirmation. This does not
Spencer> solve the whole problem, but it might provide a
Spencer> piece of the puzzle.
MM> Apropos, this reminds me of the old quiz (from the S-plus times):
MM> How can you write (quite short!) R code such that
MM> typing
MM> "Q"
MM> -- without any "()" -- will quit R (without asking about saving).
MM> [But you shouldn't really keep that code active in your
MM> standard R session because it would be too easy to
MM> accidentally shut down R !]
MM> For the advanced ones: My shortest solution uses 51
MM> characters of R code, can you beat that?
I had overlooked something: Uwe Ligges and Deepayan Sarkar beat it
almost simultaneously with a solution of 43 characters
(when using "=" for assignment).
Martin
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