Statistics, Department of
The R Journal
Date of this Version
12-2012
Document Type
Article
Citation
The R Journal (December 2012) 4(2)
Abstract
Most programming language communities have naming conventions that are generally agreed upon, that is, a set of rules that governs how functions and variables are named. This is not the case with R, and a review of unofficial style guides and naming convention us age on CRAN shows that a number of different naming conventions are currently in use. Some naming conventions are, however, more popular than others and as a newcomer to the R community or as a developer of a new package this could be useful to consider when choosing what naming convention to adopt.
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Comments
Copyright 2012, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 3.0 Unported