R elegance

[aviertio]

No R style I know of suggests opening curly brace on its own line and all the guides I've read dictate it should be on the opening line. This current version is not representative of R practices and would be more elegant with the one line less.

[WerthPADOH]

I also found this part less than convincing. Not that I need convincing; I personally know idiomatic Python is much more legible than idiomatic R. The difference shows up in nested code or chained operations:

# Python
try:
    x = 1 + '2'
    y = x + 3
except TypeError:
    pass

string.lower().replace('a', 'b')

# R
tryCatch({
    x = 1 + '2'
    y = x + 3
  },
  error = function(err) {
    NULL
  }
)

# nested chaining
gsub("a", "b", tolower(string))
# magrittr chaining
string %>%
  tolower() %>%
  str_replace_all("a", "b")

[matloff]

Sure, the real elegance comes in my complex situations. Note, though, that an indenting error may not be caught in nested settings, which could be real trouble.

[matloff]

In terms of R style, come on! Let people develop their own. I used to put { on the same line as 'function' but changed because in Vim one can easily go to the opening that way.