R Coding Style

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** Things under legendu.net/outdated are outdated technologies that the author does not plan to update any more. Please look for better alternatives. **

1. You can use the function tidy_souce in the R package formatR to format R code.

tidy_source('unformatted.r', file = 'formatted.r')

However, there is a bug in the package formatR. For example, the formatR fails to work with the following code.

if { # this is comment
    ...
}

2. Avoid changing the type of object.