[R] difference between ' and "

Ivan Calandra ivan.calandra at uni-hamburg.de
Wed Jan 27 14:15:28 CET 2010


Hi everybody,

 From my experience (which is limited), it seems to me that ' 
(apostrophe) and " (quotation marks) are the same in R: they are both 
used for strings. The only difference would be taste.
But I've recently read about the difference between = and <- and I 
thought that there might be a difference here too in some cases.
It might also depend on the operating system.

Thanks for your input!
Ivan



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