[jghn]

Iirc it comes from the old APL keyboard

[snaky]

That may be not a bad idea to get an APL keyboard actually, considering there are R interop interfaces for DyalogAPL, APLX and J.

[avs733]

well thank you, I always appreciate someone teaching me something :)

[jghn]

np. As was mentioned elsewhere in the thread, S is a pretty ancient language so R brings along some baggage with it :)