[Rd] should the text for RIGHT_ASSIGN be -> in getParseData()?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 05/07/2013 12:29 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > R itself doesn't make use of the text column, it's for display of code
> > by highlighters etc.  So if anyone does assume text is a function name,
> > it's their bug, not ours.  In fact, the bug is already there, because
> > there is actually one other example which was being parsed properly,
> > "**" is translated to "^".  There's no `**` function, but 2**3 works.
>
>   Is there any reason right-assign with "->" still exists? How much
> code on CRAN uses it, and how trivially could it be excised?

Dozens of packages on CRAN use it:  abc, abd, adabag, AdaptFitOS, bgeva, ...

> Can we
> also have 'up assign'  and "down assign" so I can do:
>
>   >     3
>   > x -^
>   > x -v
>   >     4
>
>   - they make just as much sense.

I'll work on those; they sound easier than excising right-assign.

Duncan
>
>   Okay, lets see all the edge cases.....
>
> Barry