[R] eval and as.name

[Dieter Menne]

Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk <at> idi.ntnu.no> writes:

> equal?  you mean equivalent?  mostly, yes.  briefly, this is why:
> 
> 1. a copy-over from other programming languages;
> 2. to avoid learning yet another operator;
> 3. after having learned the other operator, to avoid that ugly operator;
> 4. after an r guru complained here about people using this instead of
> that, to annoy him.

:-) It's always fun to read....

Dieter