[R] R Style Guide -- Was Post-hoc tests in MASS using glm.nb

Rolf Turner rolf.turner at xtra.co.nz
Thu May 19 01:33:38 CEST 2011


On 19/05/11 10:26, Bill.Venables at csiro.au wrote:

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> Most of [the Google style guide's] advice is very good (meaning I agree with it!) but some is a bit too much (for example, the blanket advice never to use S4 classes and methods - that's just resisting progress, in my view).
<SNIP>

I must respectfully disagree with this view, and concur heartily with 
the style guide.
S4 classes and methods are a ball-and-chain that one has to drag along.  
See also
fortune("S4 methods"). :-)

     cheers,

         Rolf



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