A Matter of Style?
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Up until a few weeks ago I would style my code like this:
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sqlSave(channel, | |
dat, | |
tablename = NULL, | |
append = FALSE, | |
rownames = TRUE, | |
colnames = FALSE, | |
verbose = FALSE, | |
safer = TRUE, | |
addPK = FALSE, | |
fast = TRUE, | |
test = FALSE, | |
nastring = NULL) |
I thought that was the only way… until I witnessed a DBA friend of mine coding. He would write the same function like this:
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sqlSave(channel | |
, dat | |
, tablename = NULL | |
, append = FALSE | |
, rownames = TRUE | |
, colnames = FALSE | |
, verbose = FALSE | |
, safer = TRUE | |
, addPK = FALSE | |
, fast = TRUE | |
, test = FALSE | |
, nastring = NULL) |
In my opinion, the second style makes the code easier to read. I suspect it is something to do with the nice ‘column’ of commas. The whole thing seems more orderly!

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