On Jan 12, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Mike Williamson wrote:
Hello,
A hopefully simple question. I use 'R' through emacs, but I
suspect the
following would occur with any manner of text editor:
- my editor has a normally quite handy feature where it will
automatically indent to the appropriate level when I start a new
line.
However, this occasionally creates cases where there is no
friendly way to
break a long line of code into two lines which still function as one
command. Therefore, I need a nice way to be able to flag 'R' to
know that
the code is continuing on the next line. Let me explain via
example:
My practice is to use the opening of a paired code delimiter like "["
or "(" at the end of a line as I have modified your code to show:
numericColumns <- names(listOfDataFrames[[myDF]][,columnsOI])[
sapply(listOfDataFrames[[myDF]]
[,columnsOI],
is.numeric) ]
As you can see in this case, I would *like* for these 2 lines of
code to
be read as 1 line, but since the "names(<blah>)" command is
sufficiently a
command on its own, 'R' see this as a completed line of code. I
could try
to break it up at different points, but emacs (and other text
editors) takes
a guess as to the most intelligent way to indent, so that if I were
to write
something like:
numericColumns <- names(listOfDataFrames[[myDF]][,columnsOI])
[sapply(
listOfDataFrames[[myDF]][,columnsOI],
is.numeric) ]
it would actually indent something more like this:
numericColumns <- names(listOfDataFrames[[myDF]][,columnsOI])
[sapply(
listOfDataFrames[[myDF]][,columnsOI], is.numeric) ]
and as you can see, that doesn't help the issue of preventing the
code from
wrapping around (and therefore doesn't help readability). Is there
some
simple way to flag that the next line is continuing? Something like
python's "\" at the end of a line? I tried wrapping the whole thing
around
curly braces { } but that didn't work, either.
Thanks!
Mike
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