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Defensive R Programming

Dr. Colin Gillespie

Jumping Rivers

The humble slug

URL slugs are the end part of a web address

Which URL do you prefer?

www.datacamp.com/courses/course1963.html

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We can learn from slugs

  • Use sensible names
    • ac.R or analysis-clustering.R
    • 1.R or loading.R
      • Be consistent
      • Use the same file extension - .R
      • Always lower case
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Dates - what do we want?

  • Unambiguous
    • So not
      • 01/02/032
    • Sortable in a file system

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Dates - ISO8601

Dates should be

YYYY-MM-DD

  • All dates are now in an obvious and natural order
  • Sorting just works!
    2017-01-02
2018-01-01
2018-01-02
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Numbers are good

For this course, I created directories called

  • chapter01
  • chapter02

Simple, yet effective

Defensive R Programming

Let's practice!

Defensive R Programming

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