[R] Code formatting question - too ugly?

[John McKown]

I like to keep the individual lines in my source files relatively
short. Mainly so that I can print them, email them, or display them on
a narrow screen without needing to shift left & right. So, for a
really long character string, such as an SQL query, I do something
like:

query=paste0("select CONVERT(smalldatetime,Int_Start_Date,11) as
Int_Start_Date,",
             " CONVERT(smalldatetime,CASE WHEN Int_Start_Time is NULL
then '00:00' ",
             "else
LEFT(Int_Start_Time,2)+':'+SUBSTRING(Int_Start_Time,3,2) end +",
             "':00', 14) as Int_Start_Time",
             ", Int_duration, RTRIM(INTTYPE) AS INTTYPE,"
             " RTRIM(Int_descr) AS Int_descr",
             ", RTRIM(INTSUBT) as INTSUBT, "
             "INDEXX, RTRIM(Label) AS Label",
             ", RTRIM(CHANGED) AS CHANGED, "
             "RTRIM(ALERT) AS ALERT, "
             "RTRIM(RELEASE) AS RELEASE",
             " FROM CPINTVL where Int_Start_Date BETWEEN '",
             startDateChar,"' and '",endDateChar,"'"
             );

So, just as an opinion, is the above "ugly looking" code compared to
just having a really long line? Also, if you/re curious, when I
started most programs were literally punched onto 80 column cards or
displayed on 80 column screens. I still have some damage from this
time (1970s).


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John McKown