mllg / checkmate

Fast and versatile argument checks
https://mllg.github.io/checkmate/
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Add error message translations #234

Open Bisaloo opened 2 years ago

Bisaloo commented 2 years ago

One big benefit of checkmate over checking your argument via base R is that the error message is automatically created & standardised.

I believe providing translation of error messages would be an extra argument to adopt this package as a dependency as it would make my package multilingual out-of-the-box (vs base R where I would have to translate each error message myself).

By translating once here, you potentially remove this need for many dependent package developers.

Bisaloo commented 7 months ago

We still have strong interest in this because we use checkmate across packages that are targeted to users in English-, Spanish-, Portuguese-, and French-speaking countries, among others.

We would happily submit a PR with the required changes, a detailed explanation of the translation process (via the potools R package), and we would help to the maintenance of this feature at least for the next couple of years.

Would you be interested in such a PR?