[R] Google's R Style Guide

[Kingsford Jones]

A few thoughts:

-- As for naming preferences, in an interactive R session or answering
an R-help question I'm glad I can type

lm(log(y) ~ atan(x))

rather than

FitLinearModel(CalculateNaturalLogarithm(y) ~ CalculateInverseTangent(x))

-- For consistency, their function makeColName(...) should be MakeColName(...)

-- I was happy to see promotion of "<-".  Reading code using '=' for
both object assignment and argument setting is a little like
fingernails on a blackboard...again and again and...

-- It's nice that people have made these guides available

Kingsford Jones


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Esmail<esmail.js 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?
>
> 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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