Coding style guidelines (discussion topic)

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Hi!

There is a question I am curious to ask since I first viewed your repository, hope this is the right place to ask so everyone can benefit from it.

Going through many of your functions, I have found inconsistencies with respect to usual R coding conventions, such as Google's R Style Guide. To be fair, while submitting new pull requests, I have sometimes omitted to apply them myself in order to avoid the "whitespace problem".

This is a subjective topic, but I would like to put it in what may hopefully become constructive. My fundamental question is: do you have a favorite coding style that may be a guideline to consistently enforce across the package? If yes, would you like to share it?

Chiefly, I am interested in this because it may be the case you actually prefer new code to be written that way, but comments about what a contributor is allowed to (occasionally) do with the existing code will be much appreciated too. (As for now I am not proposing such big changes.)