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The State of Naming Conventions in R

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Author

  • Rasmus Bååth

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

74-75

Publication/Series

The R Journal

Volume

4

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article (comment)

Publisher

R Foundation for Statistical Computing

Topic

  • Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)
  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Status

Published

Project

  • Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning

Research group

  • Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2073-4859