The meaning of "+" rather than ">"

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Description of issue -
I am running a merge of two data sets and instead of gettng a ">" message I get a "+"
The merge code is,

SIMPLE.MERGE <-merge(SUPERS, SAMPLE,by = intersect(ID_CHAR(SUPERS),ID_CHAR(SAMPLE))

System Information:

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Referred here from support.rstudio.com

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Welcome to the community!

When you run a command in R console, the next prompt appears to start with >, provided your command was complete. If it's not, R prompts you to complete your command, and to indicate it, the next line starts with +.

For example, you say you tried to run the following code:

SIMPLE.MERGE <-merge(SUPERS, SAMPLE,by = intersect(ID_CHAR(SUPERS),ID_CHAR(SAMPLE))

Note that, here you have missed one closing parentheses ), corresponding to the one opening ( immediately after merge. If you run this very code with an extra ) at the end, or try to write ) in the line starting with +, your code will run, and you'll get your familiar > prompt.

Hope this helps.

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