[R] Google's R Style Guide

[hadley wickham]

>> An opening curly brace should never go on its own line;
>
> I tend to do this:
>
> f <- function()
> {
>  if (TRUE)
>    {
>      cat("TRUE!!\n")
>    } else {
>      cat("FALSE!!\n")
>    }
> }
>
> (I don't usually put one-liners in if/else blocks; here I would have
> used ifelse)
>
> I haven't seen many others format code in this way. Is there an
> objective reason for this (such as the rule for the trailing "}") or
> is this just aesthetics?

It's probably just aesthetics.  I don't like it because it increases
the number of lines without much real benefit - indenting already
gives you all the hints you need.

Hadley

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