On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote: > 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.
I don't understand why it is not feasible. The spaces are displayed the same in all editors. If there are no tabs, the code should display the same in all editors. I know some languages that are recommended to have spaces rather than tabs for this reason. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
