[R] Are infix binary operators ** and ^ aliased?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Jean lobry <lobry at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr> writes:

> Dear R-help,
> 
> After making a typo (reminiscent of FORTRAN 77, I guess) I found the
> following:
> 
> >  identical(all.equal(2^(-10:10), 2**(-10:10)), TRUE)
> [1] TRUE
> 
> I have tried to find the documentation about the ** operator but I was
> unsuccesful this way:
> 
> >  sessionInfo()
> Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
> powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
> [7] "base"
> >  help("**")
> No documentation for '**' in specified packages and libraries:
> you could try 'help.search("**")'
> >  help.search("\\*\\*")
> No help files found with alias or concept or title matching '\*\*'
> using regular expression matching.
> >  RSiteSearch("**")
> A search query has been submitted to http://search.r-project.org
> The results page should open in your browser shortly
> # --> Too many hits
> 
> Where can I find the documentation about the ** operator?
> 
> Thanks for any hint,

It's a relic, which might be useful to have for someone, but which we
don't advertise:

> quote(3**2)
3^2


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