[R] Google's R Style Guide

[Vitalie S.]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:40:53 +0200, Kevin Wright <kw.stat at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Ted Harding
> <Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk>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?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Esmail
>> >
>> > ps: Reminds me of PEP 8 for Python
>> >
>> >      http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
>> >
>> > Maybe not that surprising since Python is also one of the main
>> > languages used by Google.
>>
>> I think it is grossly over-prescriptive. For example:
>>  "function names have initial capital letters and no dots"
>> is violated throughout R itself.
>>
>> Ted.
>>
>
> Certainly R's function names are an inconsistent mess:
>
> row.names, rownames
> browseURL, contrib.url, fixup.package.URLs
> package.contents, packageStatus
> mahalanobis, TukeyHSD
> getMethod, getS3method
>
> It's too late to fix the established functions, but it would be nice to  
> have
> more reliable and sensible standards going forward into the future.
>

It's never too late - it's only a name  not a code - search replace  
through the whole R code and have old names deprecated is not a big deal,  
isn't it?

> Kevin
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