Feature : Automated linting for files

Description

PRIORITY : LOW/OPTIONAL

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. As our codebase grows, maintaining a consistent style and avoiding common coding issues becomes increasingly important.

Proposed Solution

Describe the solution you'd like I propose that we use the lintr and styler packages in R to check for and fix common style issues. We can create a linter.R script that users can run from the terminal to check their code and fix issues.

Here's a basic example of how we can use lintr to check for issues:

# Install the lintr package
if (!require(lintr)) {
  install.packages("lintr")
}

# Check all R files in the current directory and its subdirectories
lintr::lint_dir(path = ".", pattern = "\\.R$", recursive = TRUE)

And here's how we can use styler to automatically fix some style issues:

# Install the styler package
if (!require(styler)) {
  install.packages("styler")
}

# Style all R files in the current directory and subdirectories
styler::style_dir(
  path = ".", 
  recursive = TRUE, 
  filetype = "R", 
  transformers = styler::tidyverse_style(scope = "tokens")
)

Alternatives Considered

Describe alternatives you've considered An alternative would be to manually review the code for style issues. However, this can be time-consuming and error-prone. Automated linting and styling tools can help us maintain a consistent style with less effort.

Additional Context

This is an effort to improve the quality and maintainability of our R codebase. By enforcing a consistent style and catching common issues, we can make the code easier to read with less blue underlines :-)

PecanProject / pecan