Suggested Code Style Guide

We want to maximize human-readability of code, not just machine-readability. I try to follow Hadley Wickham’s style guide for all of my code, including that in this class.

You will not be graded on the style of your code. But now’s the best time to learn best practices (while you don’t know any alternatives!) to save yourself and your potential colleagues (including your future self) from unnecessary frustration.

comment above for overall idea
comment on side for individual elements of long commands
name with _
use %>% wherever possible
spaces between all operators: <-, =, +, etc.
- Exception: : and ::
line breaks between multiple arguments to a function

p<-ggplot(data=data, aes(x=x,y=y,fill=fill))+geom_point()

becomes

p <- ggplot(data = data,
       aes(x = x,
           y = y,
           fill = fill))+
  geom_point()