teach clean code principles with examples in R

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Writing clean code is important for efficient work in every programming language. However, most of the resources available (at least what I encountered so far) contain examples in primarily object oriented languages making it less accessible for R programmers who are not software engineers.

Clean code makes it easier to collaborate, to avoid bugs and write working code faster. It also helps with understanding code written by others.

I envision a blog post series / bookdown with the relevant principles adopted from the Clean Code book with examples in R, focusing on every day R users and not necessarily those writing production R code. (i.e. do not mention error classes or R6 classes but focus on the most common use cases)

See:

• https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cleanr/index.html
• Robert C Martin: Clean Code