R: Assignment Operators

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