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Lint a file, directory, or package

Source: R/lint.R
lint.Rd

  • lint() lints a single file.

  • lint_dir() lints all files in a directory.

  • lint_package() lints all likely locations for R files in a package, i.e. R/, tests/, inst/, vignettes/, data-raw/, demo/, and exec/.

Usage

lint(
  filename,
  linters = NULL,
  ...,
  cache = FALSE,
  parse_settings = TRUE,
  text = NULL
)

lint_dir(
  path = ".",
  ...,
  relative_path = TRUE,
  exclusions = list("renv", "packrat"),
  pattern = "(?i)[.](r|rmd|qmd|rnw|rhtml|rrst|rtex|rtxt)$",
  parse_settings = TRUE,
  show_progress = NULL
)

lint_package(
  path = ".",
  ...,
  relative_path = TRUE,
  exclusions = list("R/RcppExports.R"),
  parse_settings = TRUE,
  show_progress = NULL
)

Arguments

filename

Either the filename for a file to lint, or a character string of inline R code for linting. The latter (inline data) applies whenever filename has a newline character (\n).

linters

A named list of linter functions to apply. See linters for a full list of default and available linters.

...

Provide additional arguments to be passed to:

  • exclude() (in case of lint(); e.g. lints or exclusions)

  • lint() (in case of lint_dir() and lint_package(); e.g. linters or cache)

cache

When logical, toggle caching of lint results. If passed a character string, store the cache in this directory.

parse_settings

Logical, default TRUE. Whether to try and parse the settings. Otherwise, the default_settings() are used.

text

Optional argument for supplying a string or lines directly, e.g. if the file is already in memory or linting is being done ad hoc.

path

For the base directory of the project (for lint_dir()) or package (for lint_package()).

relative_path

if TRUE, file paths are printed using their path relative to the base directory. If FALSE, use the full absolute path.

exclusions

exclusions for exclude(), relative to the package path.

pattern

pattern for files, by default it will take files with any of the extensions .R, .Rmd, .qmd, .Rnw, .Rhtml, .Rrst, .Rtex, .Rtxt allowing for lowercase r (.r, ...).

show_progress

Logical controlling whether to show linting progress with a simple text progress bar via utils::txtProgressBar(). The default behavior is to show progress in interactive() sessions not running a testthat suite.

Value

An object of class c("lints", "list"), each element of which is a "list" object.

Details

Read vignette("lintr") to learn how to configure which linters are run by default. Note that if files contain unparseable encoding problems, only the encoding problem will be linted to avoid unintelligible error messages from other linters.

Examples

f <- tempfile()
writeLines("a=1", f)
lint(f)                # linting a file
#> /tmp/RtmpI5gBmd/file17b26842ff1b:1:2: style: [assignment_linter] Use <-, not =, for assignment.
#> a=1
#>  ^
#> /tmp/RtmpI5gBmd/file17b26842ff1b:1:2: style: [infix_spaces_linter] Put spaces around all infix operators.
#> a=1
#>  ^
lint("a = 123\n")      # linting inline-code
#> <text>:1:3: style: [assignment_linter] Use <-, not =, for assignment.
#> a = 123
#>   ^
lint(text = "a = 123") # linting inline-code
#> <text>:1:3: style: [assignment_linter] Use <-, not =, for assignment.
#> a = 123
#>   ^
unlink(f)

if (FALSE) {
  lint_dir()

  lint_dir(
    linters = list(semicolon_linter()),
    exclusions = list(
      "inst/doc/creating_linters.R" = 1,
      "inst/example/bad.R",
      "renv"
    )
  )
}
if (FALSE) {
  lint_package()

  lint_package(
    linters = linters_with_defaults(semicolon_linter = semicolon_linter()),
    exclusions = list("inst/doc/creating_linters.R" = 1, "inst/example/bad.R")
  )
}