[R] programming conventions

[Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Sebastian Luque wrote:

> I'm trying to make my R scripts more readable by others, so I searched for
> some R programming conventions and found the following two:
>
> - http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/useR-2004/Keynotes/Maechler.pdf
> - http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/RCC
>
> the latter being quite extensive. Are there some other sources that might
> be useful?

`Writing R Extensions'.

Layout is by far the most common cause of hard-to-read code.


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