On 29/11/2009 10:58 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
Some lines are indented by tabs and some lines are indented by spaces,
in R source code. This might due to the fact that the source code is
not from a single person. But I think that it is better to enforce a
single convention.
My editor defaults a tab to 8 spaces. So some source doesn't seem to
be indented correctly in my editor. Since tab may be displayed
differently in different editor, I recommend to replace all the tabs
by the appropriate number of spaces to ensure the same indentation
display.
The R source code assumes that tabs occur every 8 columns, so if your
editor is working properly, it should display files as intended.
Could somebody update the source code in the future version by
replacing tabs by spaces and enforce such a coding convention in the
future?
No, that would not be feasible, for the reason you give in the second
sentence of your post.
Duncan Murdoch
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