[R] Google's R Style Guide

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Henrik Bengtsson<hb at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Quite a while ago I put up "R Coding Conventions (RCC) - a draft", now at:
>
>  http://docs.google.com/View?id=dddzqd53_2646dcw759cb

Google Docs seems to have a hiccup when it comes to publishing/sharing
docs; here is a PDF until they've fixed that:

  http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/share/hb/papers/BengtssonH_20090827-RCC_v0.9.pdf

/Henrik


>
> It's useful for beginners and those coding "randomly".  Like it or not.
>
> It's ok to try to persuade people coding randomly, but otherwise it is
> waste of time to get into arguing over if-else or bracketing - we all
> have our own favorite.
>
> /Henrik
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Kevin Wright<kw.stat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:41 AM, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > Perhaps most of you have already seen this?
>>> >
>>> >  http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/google-r-style.html
>>> >
>>> > Comments/Critiques?
>>>
>>> I made my own version that reflects my personal biases:
>>> http://had.co.nz/stat405/resources/r-style-guide.html
>>>
>>> Hadley
>>>
>>>
>> In the spirit of "less is more", I find the underscores to be distracting
>> and unneeded typing.  Just simplify to camel caps.
>>
>> I echo Duncan's idea that a line should never start with "else".  Duncan
>> mentioned this in the context of cutting and pasting, but the other place
>> that not having "else" start a line is when using the "browser" function and
>> stepping through code line by line.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
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