Add coding rule: prefer existing packaged functions over rolling your own - #213
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… own Captures the standing preference to look for an existing, well-maintained package function (base R, tidyverse/r-lib, a focused CRAN package, or our own lab packages) before writing a bespoke one. New shared fragment, referenced from CLAUDE.md alongside avoid-nesting so the lab manual can transclude it too. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PGYr9eMYnoeLH8j9fpkkB8
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Captures a standing preference from a work session: look for an existing, well-maintained packaged function before writing your own — base R, tidyverse/r-lib, a focused CRAN package, or one of our own lab packages (
{bcs},{ettbc},{gha}).New shared fragment
shared/coding/prefer-packaged-functions.md, referenced fromCLAUDE.mdnext toavoid-nesting(so the lab manual can transclude it too). The motivating example: usewithr::with_seed()instead of hand-rolling a.Random.seedsave/restore — which is exactly the cleanup just done acrossettbc(#16/#21/#23/#24).🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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