R is a joy if you treat it like Awk

Re:R is a joy if you treat it like Awk by scottlocklin on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:49PM (#21185806)

If only Hadley hadn't picked snake-case, which doesn't work so well out of the box with ESS. Yah, I know there is a way of fixing this with a setq in ESS, but I shouldn't have to.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:R is a joy if you treat it like Awk by thom on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:51PM (#21186843)

Always weird to meet Emacs people who don't like having to customise Emacs. That said, ESS has some weird defaults, not sure I'd lay them at R's door tbh.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:R is a joy if you treat it like Awk by scottlocklin on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @11:06AM (#21193071)

ESS defaults predated Hadley's contributions by a decade, making his seemingly unique adoption of snake case extremely unsociable. I actually use _ to <- a lot. It's enough of a pain in the ass, I basically stopped using his packages. This was annoying, but ultimately the Hadleyverse became a bridge too far for the kind of bread and butter data science I do, so it turned out to be helpful to me personally.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:R is a joy if you treat it like Awk by alexhutcheson on Monday October 07, 2019 @08:27PM (#21187457)

ESS disabled this behavior by default a couple releases ago, so it shouldn't be a problem anymore.

[ Parent | on HN ]