Message-ID: <4379B065.109@lancaster.ac.uk>
Date: 2005-11-15T09:54:45Z
From: Barry Rowlingson
Subject: open source and R
In-Reply-To: <39B6DDB9048D0F4DAD42CB26AAFF0AFAFED5A6@usctmx1106.merck.com>
Liaw, Andy wrote:
> However code readability can not be over-emphasized. I must admit to have
> written R code in such a supposedly `clever' way that I can't figure out
> what I was trying to do (or how I did it) a week later...
The solution to that is to make sure this sort of code is adequately
commented! Be as clever as you like - make your R look like a runner-up
in the obfuscated perl programming contest if you want - but a
well-placed comment will hopefully prevent that stupid feeling a week later.
Baz