[R] Google's R Style Guide

[Peter Dalgaard]

Esmail wrote:
> Perhaps most of you have already seen this?
> 
>   http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/google-r-style.html
> 
> Comments/Critiques?

The recommendation of variable.name over variable_name or variableName
is contentious (to say the least) because of the clash with S3 method
conventions.

The ESS convention of single, double and triple # comments needs at
least to be mentioned. Otherwise, unsuspecting programmers will be
driven up the wall when coding or editing in Emacs.

> 
> Thanks,
> Esmail
> 
> ps: Reminds me of PEP 8 for Python
> 
>     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
> 
>     Maybe not that surprising since Python is also one of the main
> languages
>     used by Google.
> 
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