Assignment Operators are used for assigning values to various data objects. The objects may be of any type like integer, vectors or functions.
1. Leftwards Assignment (<-, <<-, =)
It is used to assign values to a vector.
2. Rightwards assignment (->, ->>)
It is used to assign values to a vector.
Examples:
> x<-20
> x
> 30->y
> y
> x=7
> x
Output:
[1] 5
[1] 30
[1] 7