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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 14.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2021 Sep 6;40(27):6057–6068. doi: 10.1002/sim.9169

TABLE 1.

Style guides for different programming languages

Language Style guide(s) Guide URL(s) Linter(s) Documentation tool(s)
C/C++ Google C++ Style Guide https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html clang-tidy, cppcheck, cpplint Doxygen, Sphinx
Julia Style Guide https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/style-guide/ Documenter
Matlab MATLAB Style Guidelines 2.0 https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/46056-matlab-style-guidelines-2-0 mlint Doxygen, M2HTML, Sphinx
Python PEP 8 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ black, flake8, pylint PEP 257
R The tidyverse Style Guide, Google’s R Style Guide https://style.tidyverse.org/, https://google.github.io/styleguide/Rguide.html lintr, styler docstring, roxygen2
SAS Code Diary for SAS, Doxygen
Scala Scala Style Guide https://docs.scala-lang.org/style/ scalafmt, scalafix scaladoc, Sphinx
Stata Suggestions on Stata Programming Style https://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0018 MarkDoc