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Coding Standards

1. The 80 characters rule.
2. When possible, structure your code as sections/files, with files holding similar functions and sections to give internal structure to your file.
3. Use indenting
4. Explain yourself: Add comments.

Actual coding

Control-flow statements

# If it's only a single like
if (...)
  ...then...

# Several blocks
if (...) {
  ...then...
} else {
  ...
}

Variable/Objects names

1. Never use dots to name objects, e.g. my.object
2. Whenever possible, use informative names, e.g. loglike instead of var1

R-packages

1. Use devtools
2. Use travis-ci
3. Use roxygen
4. Use testthat + codecov

Useful references

• The Art of R programming
• R packages