Please scroll down to Section 7: https://github.com/yihui/formatR/wiki
And this has been reported at https://github.com/yihui/formatR/issues/26 I'll try to fix it after R 3.0 is released. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Andre Zege <az...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I needed to clean someone else code and run it through tidy.source. It > encountered a number of hangups which after some experimentation lead me to > suspect that the culprit is # symbol when it is a part of literal string. For > example if i copy the following to the clipboard > > confuse.tidy <- > function() > { > txt <- 'abra # cadabra' > } > > and run with default arguments > >>tidy.source() > > I am getting > Error in base::parse(text = text, srcfile = NULL) : > 4:46: unexpected INCOMPLETE_STRING > 4: txt <- 'abra %InLiNe_IdEnTiFiEr% "# cadabra'" > 5: } > > However, good news, as i realized after a bit of struggle, is that i could do > >>tidy.source(keep.comment=F) > > which produces desired > > confuse.tidy <- function() { > txt <- "abra # cadabra" > } > > > Unfortunately, # is sometimes a legitimate part of strings, for example when > you grep through lines from a web page, or when you specify a color in a > string with #. So, I thought it'd be useful to point this out so that someone > think of a workaround for this as dropping comments sometimes means dropping > something valuable. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
