Data Insight Foundations: Step-by-Step Data Analysis with R

© Nikita Tkachenko 2025

N. TkachenkoData Insight Foundationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0580-6_11

11. Modular Code

Nikita Tkachenko¹  

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San Francisco, CA, USA

 

Working within a single file is a smooth ride until you hit a couple of hundred lines. Then, searching for bugs, making edits, and simply understanding your location in the file become rather problematic. While adding comments and creating a table of contents or using search to navigate the file can help, these are just temporary solutions. They become completely ineffective when sharing the code with others. More problems arise when you have to download multiple libraries, leading to name-space conflicts, or when all the sensible names for variables and functions are taken and you ...