[R] Basic misunderstanding, or problem with my installation?

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On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 19:51:06 -0500
Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:

...
> 
> The assignment operator is TWO characters: a less than sign
> immediately followed by a minus sign.  Try copying and pasting this:
> 
> x <- 3
> x
> 

Actually, you can use the = sign as well.

X = 3

works the same as

X <- 3

and uses two fewer keystrokes if you're lazy enough to care about such
things -like me.