[R] how about a "<p-" operator?

[Kenn Konstabel]

In addition to %...% operators one can define := (I haven't seen this
possibility documented anywhere but it's used in a package) which
seems to have different precedence.

> `:=`<-`%<-%`   # the %<-% by John Fox
> a
[1] -1
> a := 1000 + 1
[1] 1001
> a
[1] 1001
> a %<-% 1000 + 1
[1] 1001
> a
[1] 1000

Regards,
Kenn

Kenn Konstabel
National Institute for Health Development
Hiiu 42
Tallinn

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:50 AM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote:
> The %...% operators are not a panacea.
> they have the same precedence as `*`
> and `/` (I think) so you get things like:
>
>  > x %<-% 10 - 8  # %<-% has higher precedence than -
>  [1] 2
>  > x # not what you thought it would be
>  [1] 10
>
>  > x %<-% 10 ^3 # but lower than ^
>  [1] 1000
>  > x # this is what you expected
>  [1] 1000
>
> It isn't that hard to write a package with your
> own parser in it.  Just have it generate the
> call tree from your input text and call eval()
> on it.
>
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of John Fox
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:34 PM
>> To: 'Carl Witthoft'
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] how about a "<p-" operator?
>>
>> Dear Carl,
>>
>> I think that the following does what you want:
>>
>> > `%<-%` <- function(e1, e2){
>> +   e1 <- deparse(substitute(e1))
>> +   env <- parent.frame()
>> +   assign(e1, e2, envir=env)
>> +   e2
>> + }
>>
>> > x %<-% 10
>> [1] 10
>>
>> > x
>> [1] 10
>>
>> But, as has been pointed out, it's probably easier just to
>> parenthesize the
>> usual assignment command.
>>
>> Regards,
>>  John
>>
>> --------------------------------
>> John Fox
>> Senator William McMaster
>>   Professor of Social Statistics
>> Department of Sociology
>> McMaster University
>> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
>> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
>> > On Behalf Of Carl Witthoft
>> > Sent: March-30-11 7:00 PM
>> > To: r-help at r-project.org
>> > Subject: [R] how about a "<p-" operator?
>> >
>> > I was cursing Matlab again today (what else is new) because
>> the default
>> > action for every Matlab command is to spew the result to
>> the console, and
>> > one must remember to put that darn ";"  at the end of every line.
>> >
>> > So I just wondered:  was there ever a discussion as to
>> providing some
>> > modified version of the "<-" and "->" operators in R to do
>> the reverse?
>> >   That is, since R does not print the values of a command
>> to the console,
>> > what if there were  an operator such that
>> >
>> >
>> >   newobject <p- somefunction()
>> >
>> > would do the same as
>> >
>> > print(newobject <- somefunction())
>> >
>> >
>> > Any thoughts?
>> > Carl
>> >
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