Most programming language communities have naming conventions that are generally agreed upon, that is, a set of rules that governs how functions and variables are named. This is not the case with R, and a review of unofficial style guides and naming convention usage on CRAN shows that a number of different naming conventions are currently in use. Some naming conventions are, however, more popular than others and as a newcomer to the R community or as a developer of a new package this could be useful to consider when choosing what naming convention to adopt.
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Bååth, "The R Journal: The State of Naming Conventions in R", The R Journal, 2012
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2012-018,
author = {Bååth, Rasmus},
title = {The R Journal: The State of Naming Conventions in R},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2012},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2012-018},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2012-018},
volume = {4},
issue = {2},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {74-75}
}