On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Ted Harding <ted.hard...@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. Kevin [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
