6 messages · Sarah Goslee, Greg Snow, Thorsten Jolitz +1 more
Hi List, I'm looking for a rather big, but well structured R file that contains as much of R language features as possible (i.e. that uses a lot of the functionality described in the 'R Reference Card' and, if possible, S4 classes too). I want to check some code I wrote against such a file and use it for demonstration purposes. However, most .R files I find out there are rather short without much structure. Any links to candidate (open source) files would be appreciated.
cheers, Thorsten
Hi List, I'm looking for a rather big, but well structured R file that contains as much of R language features as possible (i.e. that uses a lot of the functionality described in the 'R Reference Card' and, if possible, S4 classes too).
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ I might start with MASS, though I have no idea what "well structured" means to you.
I want to check some code I wrote against such a file and use it for demonstration purposes. However, most .R files I find out there are rather short without much structure.
Your request doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but there are so many thousands of R files on CRAN that there's bound to be something that makes you happy. Sarah
Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org
Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> writes:
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi List, I'm looking for a rather big, but well structured R file that contains as much of R language features as possible (i.e. that uses a lot of the functionality described in the 'R Reference Card' and, if possible, S4 classes too).
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ I might start with MASS, though I have no idea what "well structured" means to you.
I want to check some code I wrote against such a file and use it for demonstration purposes. However, most .R files I find out there are rather short without much structure.
Your request doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but there are so many thousands of R files on CRAN that there's bound to be something that makes you happy.
you are probably right, it might not make any sense, I guess I was looking for something like a "full application" written in R, not just a specialized library, but thank you for the link anyway, I decided to clone the github repo of R, and the sources together with the CRAN packages should give me what I want.
cheers, Thorsten
An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20130611/006544b9/attachment.pl>
Greg Snow <538280 at gmail.com> writes:
Some would argue that "big" and "well structured" are not compatible. Part of structuring a project well is knowing when and how to break it into smaller pieces, so those authors who are best at creating well structured R code will often split it between several small files rather than one big file.
As Emacs Org-mode has proven for text files, this structuring into smaller pieces can be done in one single file too (that is structured as a hierarchical outline tree) an this can be even more convenient than to deal with many small files. But otherwise I agree with you, its much better to split a file up before it becomes a growing mess.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi List, I'm looking for a rather big, but well structured R file that contains as much of R language features as possible (i.e. that uses a lot of the functionality described in the 'R Reference Card' and, if possible, S4 classes too). I want to check some code I wrote against such a file and use it for demonstration purposes. However, most .R files I find out there are rather short without much structure. Any links to candidate (open source) files would be appreciated. -- cheers, Thorsten
______________________________________________ R-help at 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.
cheers, Thorsten
Just because you have an editor that can let you see the organization within the file does not mean the code itself is well-structured. If you do put a lot of code in one file, you will be more likely in your next project that builds on this one to load code you do not need (bloat), and that is a very practical defect in the structure of the current project. Regardless of any arguments you can think of to the contrary, that is why single large files with otherwise well-structured code are uncommon.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live...
DCN:<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go...
Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing
Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with
/Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
Greg Snow <538280 at gmail.com> writes:
Some would argue that "big" and "well structured" are not compatible.
Part
of structuring a project well is knowing when and how to break it
into
smaller pieces, so those authors who are best at creating well
structured R
code will often split it between several small files rather than one
big
file.
As Emacs Org-mode has proven for text files, this structuring into smaller pieces can be done in one single file too (that is structured as a hierarchical outline tree) an this can be even more convenient than to deal with many small files. But otherwise I agree with you, its much better to split a file up before it becomes a growing mess.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz at gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi List, I'm looking for a rather big, but well structured R file that
contains
as much of R language features as possible (i.e. that uses a lot of
the
functionality described in the 'R Reference Card' and, if possible,
S4
classes too). I want to check some code I wrote against such a file and use it for demonstration purposes. However, most .R files I find out there are rather short without much structure. Any links to candidate (open source) files would be appreciated. -- cheers, Thorsten
______________________________________________ R-help at 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.