How to keep `=` as the assignment symbol?

[ShixiangWang]

Dear developers,

Thanks for developing this awesome tool. Sometimes I want to use a style that keep using = instead of <- of assignment symbol. Is there any easy way to do this? I check the functions but no options can be used for this setting like formatR.

BTW, the package languageserver provide a way to do this in VScode with:

options(languageserver.formatting_style = function(options) {
  style <- styler::tidyverse_style(indent_by = options$tabSize)
  style$token$force_assignment_op <- NULL # Not force modifying '=' to '<-'
  style
})

I don't know how to apply this for styler as no object can be assigned back.

Best,

Shixiang

[lorenzwalthert]

The tidyverse style guide does not support = for assignment, so you need to provide your own style guide to do this. Also, it's best to be consistent and not mix the two. The easiest way is to remove the rule as shown above. There is a vignette explaining it in more detail: https://styler.r-lib.org/dev/articles/remove_rules.html. To use this style with the addin, you need to create an R package that exports this style guide, and then set the R option styler.addins_style_transformer as described here.

[ShixiangWang]

@lorenzwalthert Thanks for your response and suggestion. I am looking for a solution from the tool itself or a workaround from setting in .Rprofile.

[lorenzwalthert]

There is no solution from the tool itself, i.e. an out-of-the-box way of doing it., and we don't aim at providing one. If you were serious about it, you have to write your own style guide as an R package, i.e. the same way as the reference implementations. Then, you have the full flexibility with vs code, RStudio addin and {precommit}. Maybe someone else already did it, but I don't know of any.

[ShixiangWang]

Thanks.

[lorenzwalthert]

if you develop such a package (it's not much code, as you see in the reference implementation), we can link it in the vignette. There is also https://github.com/ropensci-review-tools/spaceout.

[ShixiangWang]

@lorenzwalthert Thanks for providing a good reference. I will take a try.

[lorenzwalthert]

Actually the best reference is probably https://github.com/lorenzwalthert/semicoloner. You can also c/p all of it and adapt where necessary.

[lorenzwalthert]

Let me try to create a GitHub template repo for it.

[ShixiangWang]

@lorenzwalthert :) Thanks again.

[ShixiangWang]

@lorenzwalthert If you use the solution for this as a template, I think I can get rid of coding for this. Hah 😄