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# Style
This is a style guide to writing documentation for arrow.
## Coding style
Please use the [tidyverse coding style](https://style.tidyverse.org/).
## Referring to external packages
When referring to external packages, include a link to the package at the first mention, and subsequently refer to it in plain text, e.g.
* "The arrow R package provides a [dplyr](https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/) interface to Arrow Datasets. This vignette introduces Datasets and shows how to use dplyr to analyze them."
## Data frames
When referring to the concept, use the phrase "data frame", whereas when referring to an object of that class or when the class is important, write `data.frame`, e.g.
* "You can call `write_dataset()` on tabular data objects such as Arrow Tables or RecordBatches, or R data frames. If working with data frames you might want to use a `tibble` instead of a `data.frame` to take advantage of the default behaviour of partitioning data based on grouped variables."
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