The thing on the right of <- is a formula object. It is often used to denote a statistical model, where the thing on the left of the ~ is the response and the things on the right of the ~ are the explanatory variables. So in English you’d say something like “Species depends on Sepal Length, Sepal Width, Petal Length and Petal Width”.
The myFormula <- part of that line stores the formula in an object called myFormula so you can use it in other parts of your R code.
Other common uses of formula objects in R
The lattice package uses them to specify the variables to plot.
The ggplot2 package uses them to specify panels for plotting.
The dplyr package uses them for non-standard evaulation.
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