[Rd] Patch proposal for R style consistency (concerning deparse.c)

[Hervé Pagès]

On 04/24/2013 05:45 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 13-04-24 8:08 PM, Hervé Pagès wrote:
>> On 04/18/2013 11:41 AM, Yihui Xie wrote:
>>> I second the change of "} else {".
>>
>> Me too. Note that print.function() will screw it only if you use
>> useSource=FALSE:
>>
>>     > print.function(foo3, useSource=FALSE)
>>     function ()
>>     {
>>       if (FALSE) {
>>           letters
>>       }
>>       else {
>>           LETTERS
>>       }
>>     }
>>
>> Otherwise, everything is fine:
>>
>>     > print.function(foo3)
>>     function()
>>     {
>>       if (FALSE) {
>>           letters  # some comment
>>       } else {
>>           LETTERS
>>       }
>>     }
>>
>> I can't see of any reason why useSource=FALSE would screw my nicely
>> formatted 'if' statement though.
>
> You asked it to reformat it, because you didn't like your original
> formatting.  Otherwise you wouldn't have said useSource=FALSE.

Yes I did like my original formatting. I used useSource=FALSE to show
the ugly formatting it produces. And don't tell me "if you don't like
the formatting it produces then don't use useSource=FALSE" because
unfortunately, at least for me, I get that ugly formatting for base
functions and functions defined in a package in general, even if I
don't use useSource=FALSE (seems like the original code is lost for
those functions).

>
> This formatting is ugly, unnecessarily
>> uses 1 more line, and the 'if' statement cannot be copy/pasted into an
>> interactive session anymore. So, in a way, you could even consider
>> this is invalid code.
>
> That's nonsense.

What? The formatting produced by useSource=FALSE? Yes.

H.

>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> H.
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Yihui
>>> --
>>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>>> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
>>> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
>>> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> OK, I concede that.
>>>>
>>>> Now, how about "} else {"
>>>>
>>>> I will provide patch that does only that change.
>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:05 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 18, 2013, at 05:39 , Paul Johnson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2 & 3. I want to omit space after if and for.   Since if and for are
>>>>>> functions in R, not keywords, I suggest that there should not be a
>>>>>> space before the opening parentheses.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wrong. They are part of language constructs (and they _are_
>>>>> keywords, not names, that's why ?for won't work). The function
>>>>> calls are `if`(fee, {foo}, {fie}) and something rebarbative for
>>>>> `for`(....).
>>>>>
>>>>> Besides, both constructs are harder to read without the spaces.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor
>>>>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
>>>>> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
>>>>> Phone: (+45)38153501
>>>>> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Paul E. Johnson
>>>> Professor, Political Science      Assoc. Director
>>>> 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504      Center for Research Methods
>>>> University of Kansas                 University of Kansas
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>>>
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>

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