Jake van der Plas has recently analyzed (http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2017/11/09/exploring-line-lengths-in-python-packages/), which effect the 79 character line limit of the PEP8 style guide has on programming habits and stylistic conventions of Python package developers. In the R world, I am not aware of a similar style guide. Triggered by Jake's analysis, I look into the distributions of line lengths in several R packages, in order to identify differences to the Python world, and between package developers

A first attempt at modeling.