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April 21, 2011
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(This article was first published on 4D Pie Charts » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

I notice that the latest version of R has upped the maximum length of variable names from 256 characters to a whopping 10 000! (See ?name.) It makes the 63 character limit in MATLAB look rather pitiful by comparison. Come on MathWorks! Let’s have the ability to be stupidly verbose in our variable naming!


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