[R] Updating Tom Short's R Reference Card, contacting him?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12-11-21 5:20 PM, Matthew Baggott wrote:
> I am uncertain about how to acknowledge the fact that $ can do partial
> matching in the space of about 30 characters.  One option is this:
>
> x[["name"]]       column named "name"
> x$name           same as above (almost always)

How about "as above (with partial matching)"?

If it is still too long, "with" could be abbreviated, "matching" could 
be match:

"as above (w. partial match)"

Duncan Murdoch

>
> Is that better or worse than ignoring this issue, or is there an even
> better phrasing?
>
> As per the other suggestions, I fixed the matrices indexing info,
> pkg::foo() now has "not usually required"; and <<-  now is explained
> as "Left assignment in outer lexical scope; not for beginners"
>
> Plus, I've been able to get in touch with Tom Short. :-)
>
> Thanks to Jeff Newmiller,Dennis Murphy, and Peter Dalgaard for these
> helpful suggestions and corrections!
>
> regards,
> m@
>
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