[R] R is GNU S, not C.... [was "how to get or store ....."]

[Xiaofan Li]

I consistently use ";" at every end of my R code and have found it much more
neat than those sentences without an end; for "<-" and "=", if I were the
author I would rather take the first representation as a sign of
passing-by-reference while the latter by value.

Xiaofan 

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of McGehee, Robert
Sent: 06 December 2005 16:32
To: Jan T. Kim; rHelp
Subject: Re: [R] R is GNU S, not C.... [was "how to get or store ....."]

> Jan T. Kim wrote:
>
> There is a draft R Coding Convention available at
> 
>     http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/RCC/
> 
> which may be useful for finding a style that is good because it is 
> widely used and therefore familiar to a large number of readers.--

However, as the author Henrik Bengtsson points out "these guidelines are
ours and not the R-developers." Perhaps a definitive style guide published
by R core that ensured consistency among new base code would be a helpful
addition. I personally find the above style guide extremely useful when
multiple programmers work on the same project, and would welcome a formal
endorsement or revision by the R developers. (And despite Henrik's elegant
guide, I too leave off the semicolons at the end of the lines.)

--Robert

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