A Matter of Style?

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Up until a few weeks ago I would style my code like this:

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:

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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