library_call_linter: Library call linter

In jimhester/lintr: A 'Linter' for R Code

Library call linter

Description

This linter covers several rules related to library() calls:

Usage

library_call_linter(allow_preamble = TRUE)

Arguments

allow_preamble

Logical, default TRUE. If FALSE, no code is allowed to precede the first library() call, otherwise some setup code is allowed, but all library() calls must follow consecutively after the first one.

Details

• Enforce such calls to all be at the top of the script.

• Block usage of argument character.only, in particular for loading packages in a loop.

• Block consecutive calls to suppressMessages(library(.)) in favor of using suppressMessages() only once to suppress messages from all library() calls. Ditto suppressPackageStartupMessages().

Tags

best_practices, configurable, readability, style

See Also

linters for a complete list of linters available in lintr.

Examples

# will produce lints

code <- "library(dplyr)\nprint('test')\nlibrary(tidyr)"
writeLines(code)
lint(
  text = code,
  linters = library_call_linter()
)

lint(
  text = "library('dplyr', character.only = TRUE)",
  linters = library_call_linter()
)

code <- paste(
  "pkg <- c('dplyr', 'tibble')",
  "sapply(pkg, library, character.only = TRUE)",
  sep = "\n"
)
writeLines(code)
lint(
  text = code,
  linters = library_call_linter()
)

code <- "suppressMessages(library(dplyr))\nsuppressMessages(library(tidyr))"
writeLines(code)
lint(
  text = code,
  linters = library_call_linter()
)

# okay
code <- "library(dplyr)\nprint('test')"
writeLines(code)
lint(
  text = code,
  linters = library_call_linter()
)

code <- "# comment\nlibrary(dplyr)"
lint(
  text = code,
  linters = library_call_linter()
)

code <- paste(
  "foo <- function(pkg) {",
  "  sapply(pkg, library, character.only = TRUE)",
  "}",
  sep = "\n"
)
writeLines(code)
lint(
  text = code,
  linters = library_call_linter()
)

code <- "suppressMessages({\n  library(dplyr)\n  library(tidyr)\n})"
writeLines(code)
lint(
  text = code,
  linters = library_call_linter()
)

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