The State of Naming Conventions in R
(2012) In The R Journal 4(2). p.74-75- 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 usage 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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- author
- Bååth, Rasmus LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- The R Journal
- volume
- 4
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 74 - 75
- publisher
- R Foundation for Statistical Computing
- external identifiers
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- wos:000313198000010
- scopus:84883237004
- ISSN
- 2073-4859
- project
- Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- e324f252-1d1c-4416-ad1f-284d4ba84bf9 (old id 3492317)
- alternative location
- http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2012-2/RJournal_2012-2_Baaaath.pdf
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