[R] Teaching R: To quote, or not to quote?

[Yihui Xie]

Oh, JSS... I was Achimitized last week... although I have been seeing
library() calls without double quotes almost everywhere.

Regards,
Yihui
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On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Michael Friendly <friendly at yorku.ca> wrote:
> On 3/7/2011 9:52 AM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> When I teach an intro workshop on R, I've been minimizing "quote
>> confusion" by always using quotes around package names in function calls.
>> For example:
>>
>> install.packages("Hmisc")
>> update.packages("Hmisc")
>> library("Hmisc")
>> citation("Hmisc")
>> search()  # displays package names in quotes
>> detach("packages:Hmisc")  # just as search displayed it
>>
>
> FWIW, the style for JSS now enforces (via Achimitization) the use of quotes
> as you show above.
>
> -Michael
>
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