Re: [Discuss] Defensive Programming with R

2016-09-30 Thread Luke Johnston
I agree with Naupaka that it is a bit advanced. However, the package `testthat` is not for defensive programming per se, but for unit tests. For defensive programming specifically there is the `assertive` and `assertr` packages. However, unlike Python, the facilities for defensive programming are

Re: [Discuss] Python as a second language

2016-09-13 Thread Luke Johnston
Not sure how relevant the "Programming in R" lesson SWC material is for you, but a great resource for "programmers using R" would be the book/online book Advanced R http://adv-r.had.co.nz/ by Hadley Wickham. Luke On 2016-09-13 02:21 PM, Gabriel A. Devenyi wrote: > This is purely out of personal