Fair enough. But I find my interactive data analysis jobs quickly get big enough (data manipulation, a series of model fits, some customised output) for the analysis script to turn into something that looks like a program. Of course, YMMV. I also get annoyed at code that uses = for assignment outside function calls. So I may be a bit pedantic when it comes to coding style. But I still believe that good style is worth aiming for. Should R assume some basic proficiency in touch typing? :-)
Cheers, Simon. On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 07:03 -0600, hadley wickham wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Simon Blomberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is better programming practice to use FALSE for false and TRUE for > > true, and not F and T. This is because it is quite legal to do this: > > > > T <- FALSE > > F <- TRUE > > It may be better programming practice, but is it better interactive > data analysis practice? R isn't just a programming language, and > there are lots of good reasons to provide shortcuts that reduce > typing. It's very easy to forget that most people can't touch type at > a decent speed, and every key press less helps them get their ideas > from their head to the computer faster. > > Hadley > -- Simon Blomberg, BSc (Hons), PhD, MAppStat. Lecturer and Consultant Statistician Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences The University of Queensland St. Lucia Queensland 4072 Australia Room 320 Goddard Building (8) T: +61 7 3365 2506 http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqsblomb email: S.Blomberg1_at_uq.edu.au Policies: 1. I will NOT analyse your data for you. 2. Your deadline is your problem. The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
