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=== R ===

While there is no official style guide for [[R (programming language)|R]], the tidyverse style guide from R-guru Hadley Wickham sets the standard for most users.<ref name=tidyverse>[https://style.tidyverse.org/ Style Guide for RCode ]</ref> This guide recommends avoiding special characters in file names and using only numbers, lowercase letters and underscores for file, variable and function names e.g. fit_models.R.

Its predecessors S and S-PLUS did not allow underscores in variable and function names, but instead used the period as a delimiter. As a result, many base functions in R still have a period as delimiter e.g. as.data.frame().

Hidden objects can be created with the dot prefix e.g. .hidden_object. These objects do not appear in the global environment. The dot prefix is often used by package developers for functions that are purely internal and are not supposed to be used by end users. It is similar to the underscore prefix in Python.

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