On 08/10/2013 10:44 AM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) 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
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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Jeff NewmillerThe .
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
I think there are two possibilities: (1) package.skeleton() can
produce this; (2) the package author prefers this style. Back-quoting
is often unnecessary, unless the object name is not valid without
back-quoting, e.g.,
`a b` - 1:2
ls()
[1] a b
a b
Error: unexpected symbol in a b
`a b`
[1] 1
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