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The State of Naming Conventions in R

Bååth, Rasmus LU (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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The R Journal
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74 - 75
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R Foundation for Statistical Computing
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2073-4859
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Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
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English
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