Style your R Script
By Daniel Nicola in R Posts
February 17, 2022
If you’re an R user, this might be (extremely) helpful. Styling your code might be a pain in the a$$. Even worse, receiving messy code from someone else… What if I told you that you can style your code with one single line of code?
Well, a few weeks ago I was in front of a very messy code and started tidying it line by line… after a few minutes I had enough. I am not a tidy coder myself, but I try to keep my code understandable. Nevertheless, sometimes you’re just doing things on the go and forget the guidelines you’re supposed to follow when writing R scripts. Here’s an example of them Google’s R Style Guide.
So if you have scripts that are just too long to be styled, check this out!
The magic of Styler
The Styler package has been around for a while and makes your styling easy and quick. As you can see in the documentation, there are lots of things to set and style, but with this one line of code you get your script tidy and ready to be shared with others.
library(styler)
styler:::style_active_file()I saved valuable minutes of my life with this (with code from others as well as mine). Hope it helps you!