On Apr 18, 2013, at 05:39 , Paul Johnson wrote:
> 2 & 3. I want to omit space after if and for. Since if and for are
> functions in R, not keywords, I suggest that there should not be a
> space before the opening parentheses.
Wrong. They are part of language constructs (and they _are_ keywords, not
names, that's why ?for won't work). The function calls are `if`(fee, {foo},
{fie}) and something rebarbative for `for`(....).
Besides, both constructs are harder to read without the spaces.
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