R is GNU S, not C.... [was "how to get or store ....."]
Jan T. Kim wrote:
There is a draft R Coding Convention available at
http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/RCC/
which may be useful for finding a style that is good because it is
widely used and therefore familiar to a large number of readers.--
However, as the author Henrik Bengtsson points out "these guidelines are ours and not the R-developers." Perhaps a definitive style guide published by R core that ensured consistency among new base code would be a helpful addition. I personally find the above style guide extremely useful when multiple programmers work on the same project, and would welcome a formal endorsement or revision by the R developers. (And despite Henrik's elegant guide, I too leave off the semicolons at the end of the lines.) --Robert