seq_linter: Sequence linter

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Sequence linter

Description

This linter checks for 1:length(...), 1:nrow(...), 1:ncol(...), 1:NROW(...) and 1:NCOL(...) expressions in base-R, or their usage in conjunction with seq() (e.g., seq(length(...)), seq(nrow(...)), etc.).

Usage

seq_linter()

Details

Additionally, it checks for 1:n() (from {dplyr}) and 1:.N (from {data.table}).

These often cause bugs when the right-hand side is zero. Instead, it is safer to use base::seq_len() (to create a sequence of a specified length) or base::seq_along() (to create a sequence along an object).

Tags

best_practices, consistency, default, efficiency, robustness

See Also

linters for a complete list of linters available in lintr.

Examples

# will produce lints
lint(
  text = "seq(length(x))",
  linters = seq_linter()
)

lint(
  text = "1:nrow(x)",
  linters = seq_linter()
)

lint(
  text = "dplyr::mutate(x, .id = 1:n())",
  linters = seq_linter()
)

# okay
lint(
  text = "seq_along(x)",
  linters = seq_linter()
)

lint(
  text = "seq_len(nrow(x))",
  linters = seq_linter()
)

lint(
  text = "dplyr::mutate(x, .id = seq_len(n()))",
  linters = seq_linter()
)

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