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From R.utils v2.0.0 by Henrik Bengtsson

Assignment operator for delayed assignments

Assignment operator for delayed assignments such that the expression on the right-hand side (RHS) will not be evaluated until the value of the assigned variable (on left-hand side (LHS)) is evaluated. The RHS expression will be evaluted in a local().

Keywords: internal

Usage

x %<-% value

Arguments

x: The variable name (possibly quoted).
value: The value to be assigned to x.

Value

Returns (invisibly) NULL. Note, contrary to <-(), it is not meaniful to do a %<-% b %<-% c %<-% 6.

Examples

message("a %<-% ...")
a %<-% { message("Now assigning 'a'"); 1 }
message("b %<-% a")
b %<-% a
message("c %<-% b")
c %<-% b
message("d %<-% 2*c")
d <- 2*c

Documentation reproduced from package R.utils, version 2.0.0, License: LGPL (>= 2.1)

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