The use of period in function names and variable names

Hi,

Hello.

Not at all in the way you have shown. Just to improve your code
"readability", try to avoid naming your variables beginning with period
(example: .hello).

Well, that's not exactly true.

It's "common practice" to name variables with a leading period if you
want them to be considered "hidden," in some respect. See the
`all.names` argument to the `ls` function, for instance.

-steve

Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
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