[R] Google's R Style Guide

Esmail esmail.js at gmail.com
Sat Aug 29 15:41:17 CEST 2009


(Ted Harding) wrote:
> On 28-Aug-09 12:59:24, Esmail wrote:
>> Perhaps most of you have already seen this?
>>   
>> http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/google-r-style.html
>>
>> Comments/Critiques?

> I think it is grossly over-prescriptive. For example:
>   "function names have initial capital letters and no dots"
> is violated throughout R itself.

Thanks Ted, the way I look at these is as recommendations that
I can choose to follow .. if something strikes me as silly I will
happily ignore it ;-)

Best,
Esmail




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