My simple benchmarking experiment indicates that it does not matter:
the.name.of.a.random.variable.in.r <- 1:1000
the.name.of.a.random.variable.in.r.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa <- 1:1000
variable <- 1:1000
microbenchmark::microbenchmark(long=sum(the.name.of.a.random.variable.in.r),
short=sum(variable),
verylong=sum(the.name.of.a.random.variable.in.r.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa))
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