R objects that reside in other R objects can require a lot of typing to access. For example, to refer to a variable x in a dataframe df, one could type df$x. This is no problem when the dataframe and variable names are short, but can become burdensom...

Last week we made an impassioned plea for attention to style in formatting R and SAS code.While it's always better to adopt a consistent style and use it whenever you write code, the reality is that sometimes formatting slips (or you end up repurposing...

As we get close to the end of the year, it's time to look back over the past year and think of resolutions for 2011 and beyond. One that's often on my mind relates to ways to structure my code to make it clearer to others (as well as to myself ...