The use of period in function names and variable names

jdospina

Tue, Oct 4, 2011 8:39 AM

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).

In contrast with Matlab (for example) the period in R is not to have access
to an object property.

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