Naming Conventions
In this lesson we will learn naming convention in R.
R is a high-level programming language used primarily for statistical computing and graphics. The goal of the R Programming Style Guide is to make our R code easier to read, share, and verify. The rules below were designed in collaboration with the entire R user community at Google.
File Names
File names should end in .R and, of course, be meaningful.
Identifiers
Don’t use underscores ( _ ) or hyphens ( - ) in identifiers. Identifiers should be named according to the following conventions.
Variable names
The preferred form for variable names is all lower case letters and words separated with dots for example, variable.name, but variableName is also accepted.
Function Names
Function names should be CamelCase. Use Capitalization of the first letter to separate words within a name, for example, FunctionName.
- Make function names verbs.
Constant Names
Constants are named like functions but with an initial k, for example, kConstantName.