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

[Achim Zeileis]

On Thu, 19 May 2011, Timothy Bates wrote:

> lol:-)
> is there a way to get a fortune on start up in R?

One possible way is to put something like this into your .Rprofile

if(interactive()) {
   library("fortunes")
   fortune()
}

The interactive() condition avoids having it in the output of certain 
scripts etc.

hth,
Z

> On 19 May 2011, at 00:33, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
>>
>> On 19/05/11 10:26, Bill.Venables at csiro.au wrote:
>>
>> <SNIP>
>>> 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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