utilities: General utility functions

In arcgisutils: ArcGIS Utility Functions

General utility functions

Description

General utility functions

Usage

compact(.x)

a %||% b

check_dots_named(dots, call = rlang::caller_env())

Arguments

.x	a list
a	an R object
b	an R object
dots	a list collected from dots via rlang::list2(...)
call	default rlang::caller_env(). The caller environment passed to cli::cli_abort()

Details

• compact() removes any NULL list elements

• ⁠%||%⁠ is a special pipe operator that returns b if a is NULL

Value

• compact() a list

• ⁠%||%⁠ the first non-null item or NULL if both are NULL

Examples

# remove null elements
compact(list(a = NULL, b = 1))

# if NULL return rhs
NULL %||% 123

# if not NULL return lhs
123 %||% NULL

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