R/doc-helper-cli.R

In chores: A Collection of Large Language Model Assistants

#' The cli helper
#'
#' @description
#'
#' A couple years ago, the tidyverse team began migrating to the cli R package
#' for raising errors, transitioning away from base R (e.g. `stop()`),
#' rlang (e.g. `rlang::abort()`), glue, and homegrown combinations of them.
#' cli's new syntax is easier to work with as a developer and more visually
#' pleasing as a user.
#'
#' In some cases, transitioning is as simple as Finding + Replacing
#' `rlang::abort()` to `cli::cli_abort()`. In others, there's a mess of
#' ad-hoc pluralization, `paste0()`s, glue interpolations, and other
#' assorted nonsense to sort through. Total pain, especially with thousands
#' upon thousands of error messages thrown across the tidyverse, r-lib, and
#' tidymodels organizations.
#'
#' The cli helper helps you convert your R package to use cli for error messages.
#'
#' @section Cost:
#'
#' The system prompt for a cli helper includes something like 4,000 tokens.
#' Add in (a generous) 100 tokens for the code that's actually highlighted
#' and also sent off to the model and you're looking at 4,100 input tokens.
#' The model returns approximately the same number of output tokens as it
#' receives, so we'll call that 100 output tokens per refactor.
#'
#' As of the time of writing (October 2024), the recommended chores model Claude
#' Sonnet 3.5 costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output
#' tokens. So, using the recommended model,
#' **cli helpers cost around $15 for every 1,000 refactored pieces of code**. GPT-4o
#' Mini, by contrast, doesn't tend to get cli markup classes right but _does_
#' return syntactically valid calls to cli functions, and it would cost around
#' 75 cents per 1,000 refactored pieces of code.
#'
#' @section Gallery:
#'
#' This section includes a handful of examples
#' ["from the wild"](https://github.com/tidymodels/tune/blob/f8d734ac0fa981fae3a87ed2871a46e9c40d509d/R/checks.R)
#' and are generated with the recommended model, Claude Sonnet 3.5.
#'
#' At its simplest, a one-line message with a little bit of markup:
#'
#' ```r
#' rlang::abort("`save_pred` can only be used if the initial results saved predictions.")
#' ```
#'
#' Returns:
#'
#' ```r
#' cli::cli_abort("{.arg save_pred} can only be used if the initial results saved predictions.")
#' ```
#'
#' Some strange vector collapsing and funky line breaking:
#'
#' ```r
#' extra_grid_params <- glue::single_quote(extra_grid_params)
#' extra_grid_params <- glue::glue_collapse(extra_grid_params, sep = ", ")
#'
#' msg <- glue::glue(
#'   "The provided `grid` has the following parameter columns that have ",
#'   "not been marked for tuning by `tune()`: {extra_grid_params}."
#' )
#'
#' rlang::abort(msg)
#' ```
#'
#' Returns:
#'
#' ```r
#' cli::cli_abort(
#'   "The provided {.arg grid} has parameter columns that have not been
#'    marked for tuning by {.fn tune}: {.val {extra_grid_params}}."
#' )
#' ```
#'
#' A message that probably best lives as two separate elements:
#'
#' ```r
#' rlang::abort(
#'   paste(
#'     "Some model parameters require finalization but there are recipe",
#'     "parameters that require tuning. Please use ",
#'     "`extract_parameter_set_dials()` to set parameter ranges ",
#'     "manually and supply the output to the `param_info` argument."
#'   )
#' )
#' ```
#'
#' Returns:
#'
#' ```r
#' cli::cli_abort(
#'   c(
#'     "Some model parameters require finalization but there are recipe
#'      parameters that require tuning.",
#'     "i" = "Please use {.fn extract_parameter_set_dials} to set parameter
#'            ranges manually and supply the output to the {.arg param_info}
#'            argument."
#'   )
#' )
#' ```
#'
#' Gnarly ad-hoc pluralization:
#'
#' ```r
#' msg <- "Creating pre-processing data to finalize unknown parameter"
#' unk_names <- pset$id[unk]
#' if (length(unk_names) == 1) {
#'   msg <- paste0(msg, ": ", unk_names)
#' } else {
#'   msg <- paste0(msg, "s: ", paste0("'", unk_names, "'", collapse = ", "))
#' }
#' rlang::inform(msg)
#' ```
#'
#' Returns:
#'
#' ```r
#' cli::cli_inform(
#'   "Creating pre-processing data to finalize unknown parameter{?s}: {.val {unk_names}}"
#' )
#' ```
#'
#' Some `paste0()` wonk:
#'
#' ```r
#' rlang::abort(paste0(
#'   "The workflow has arguments to be tuned that are missing some ",
#'   "parameter objects: ",
#'   paste0("'", pset$id[!params], "'", collapse = ", ")
#' ))
#' ```
#'
#' Returns:
#'
#' ```r
#' cli::cli_abort(
#'   "The workflow has arguments to be tuned that are missing some
#'    parameter objects: {.val {pset$id[!params]}}"
#' )
#' ```
#'
#' The model is instructed to only return a call to a cli function, so
#' erroring code that's run conditionally can get borked:
#'
#' ```r
#' cls <- paste(cls, collapse = " or ")
#' if (!fine) {
#'   msg <- glue::glue("Argument '{deparse(cl$x)}' should be a {cls} or NULL")
#'   if (!is.null(where)) {
#'     msg <- glue::glue(msg, " in `{where}`")
#'   }
#'   rlang::abort(msg)
#' }
#' ```
#'
#' Returns:
#'
#' ```r
#' cli::cli_abort(
#'   "Argument {.code {deparse(cl$x)}} should be {?a/an} {.cls {cls}} or {.code NULL}{?in {where}}."
#' )
#' ```
#'
#' Note that `?in where` is not valid cli markup.
#'
#' Sprintf-style statements aren't an issue:
#'
#' ```r
#' abort(sprintf("No such '%s' function: `%s()`.", package, name))
#' ```
#'
#' Returns:
#'
#' ```r
#' cli::cli_abort("No such {.pkg {package}} function: {.fn {name}}.")
#' ```
#'
#' @templateVar chore cli
#' @template manual-interface
#'
#' @name cli_helper
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