TIL: Apparently #R lets you use either `<-` or `=` for assignment.
Most other programming languages I've used use `=`, which is often confusing to students. They sometimes think `a = b` means that `a` will *always* equal `b`.
@jmw150 @peterdrake best practice is to use `<-`. The equal `=` is saved for assigning values for parameters in functions.
@peterdrake I started programming so young that I had that opposite issue: I had to learn that = was NOT for assignment when I learned algebra. I remember being very confused at first.
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Would prefer <- but everybody wants to be like C.