[R-wiki] Be careful of syntax!

[Peter Dalgaard]

Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org> writes:

> - Try to format R code as the implicit "R-Core Team formatting", in 
> particular:
>    + Forget about T/F and always use TRUE/FALSE
>    + Forget about '=' for assignation ands always use '->'
>    + Use spaces for clearer code in math operations, after commas, 
> between the equal sign in named arguments, for instance:
> 
> f <- function(x, y, nam.rm = TRUE) {
>      if (na.rm) {
>          x <- na.omit(x)
>          y <- na.omit(y)
>      }
>      x + log(y)^2 - y
> }
> 
>    + Indent (use four spaces for each indentation instead of tabs, to 
> make sure it is correct)
>    + Bracket indentation should be as the example here above.
>    + Use named arguments as much as possible, because it is more explicit)
>    + Use meaningful variable names

And of course, make sure that the code actually works (the above
does not in two different ways...)

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