[TS EDITOR WARS] General thread for recommendations, discussion and tips on editors.
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Re: [TS EDITOR WARS] General thread for recommendations, discussion and tips on edito
Which is extremely important if you ask me. My older code is awful, and I hate myself for it
This a good read om how and why these things (that may seem nitpicky) are actually surprisingly important
(well maybe not the indentation examples above, but the readability point).
Best Practices for Scientific Computing
Abstract
Scientists spend an increasing amount of time building and u
sing software. However, most scientists are never taught how to d
o this efficiently. As a result, many are unaware of tools and practic
es that would allow them to write more reliable and maintainable cod
e with less effort. We describe a set of best practices for scientific
software development that have solid foundations in research and exp
erience, and that improve scientists’ productivity and the reliabil
ity of their software.
download (pdf alert)
Which is extremely important if you ask me. My older code is awful, and I hate myself for it
This a good read om how and why these things (that may seem nitpicky) are actually surprisingly important
(well maybe not the indentation examples above, but the readability point).
Best Practices for Scientific Computing
Abstract
Scientists spend an increasing amount of time building and u
sing software. However, most scientists are never taught how to d
o this efficiently. As a result, many are unaware of tools and practic
es that would allow them to write more reliable and maintainable cod
e with less effort. We describe a set of best practices for scientific
software development that have solid foundations in research and exp
erience, and that improve scientists’ productivity and the reliabil
ity of their software.
download (pdf alert)
Re: [TS EDITOR WARS] General thread for recommendations, discussion and tips on edito
Trinker, the spacing and indents-as-spaces or indents-as-tabs are completely configurable in RStudio
Tools > Options > Code Editing
- Insert spaces for Tab
- Set tab width
- Vertically align arguments in auto-indent
I never did get what "enable vim editing mode" does lol
Trinker, the spacing and indents-as-spaces or indents-as-tabs are completely configurable in RStudio
Tools > Options > Code Editing
- Insert spaces for Tab
- Set tab width
- Vertically align arguments in auto-indent
I never did get what "enable vim editing mode" does lol
Re: [TS EDITOR WARS] General thread for recommendations, discussion and tips on edito
I hear the NSA search algorithms look for people who discuss how to improve formatting of code [something only a handful of people on the planet actually know about let alone care]. It is where they find some of the more dangerous people on the planet...
I hear the NSA search algorithms look for people who discuss how to improve formatting of code [something only a handful of people on the planet actually know about let alone care]. It is where they find some of the more dangerous people on the planet...
Re: [TS EDITOR WARS] General thread for recommendations, discussion and tips on edito
It does pretty much what it sounds like... you edit in the source panel like you would in vim. I think it only offers normal (command) and insert modes though. So if you want to delete a line you can navigate to that line using j/k instead of up/down and then hit 'dd' to get rid of the line. If you want to add some text hit 'i' to enable insert mode and start typing away.
It does pretty much what it sounds like... you edit in the source panel like you would in vim. I think it only offers normal (command) and insert modes though. So if you want to delete a line you can navigate to that line using j/k instead of up/down and then hit 'dd' to get rid of the line. If you want to add some text hit 'i' to enable insert mode and start typing away.
Re: [TS EDITOR WARS] General thread for recommendations, discussion and tips on edito
@BG that's my set up exactly. Here's what I don't like (and again it's preference).
Grab exactly this:
Then put your cursor right before 100 and hit enter.
This is what it looks like:
I'd prefer this:
Which means I'd like to be able to hit enter and the 100 just goes to the begining of the line like this:
And I'd hit space myself 4 times. I like it this way. it's like driving a standard transmission vs. and automatic. Some people like the flexibility of the standard. I'm one of them.
The auto indent here is nice for some. I want it to just return to the next line and let me put the number of spaces in that I feel are appropriate. As far as I can tell no set up in RStudio would have it auto indent as:
So If I want this I have to hit enter, then delete the space RStudio felt was correct and I then hit spacebar 4 times myself.
This may seem silly but wen you have multiple lines as this:
It looks like this in RStudio. This looks not as good to me and is wasteful of space and the problem is amplified if you use list instead of c.
@BG that's my set up exactly. Here's what I don't like (and again it's preference).
Grab exactly this:
Code:
x <- c(44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 100)This is what it looks like:
Code:
x <- c(44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44,
100)
Code:
x <- c(44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44,
100)
Code:
x <- c(44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44,
100)The auto indent here is nice for some. I want it to just return to the next line and let me put the number of spaces in that I feel are appropriate. As far as I can tell no set up in RStudio would have it auto indent as:
Code:
x <- c(44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44,
100)This may seem silly but wen you have multiple lines as this:
Code:
x <- c(44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44,
44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44,
44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44,
44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44,
100)
Code:
x <- c(44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44,
44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44,
44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44,
44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44,
100)Re: [TS EDITOR WARS] General thread for recommendations, discussion and tips on edito
Once again I have to say that I just don't think you've taken the time to configure RStudio the way you want it. Really the fix is easy - uncheck the "Vertically align arguments in the auto-indent" box and you should have it do what you want.
Once again I have to say that I just don't think you've taken the time to configure RStudio the way you want it. Really the fix is easy - uncheck the "Vertically align arguments in the auto-indent" box and you should have it do what you want.
Re: [TS EDITOR WARS] General thread for recommendations, discussion and tips on edito
Correction. Uncheck the "Vertically align arguments in auto-indent" box and it WILL do what he wants lol
But personally, a block assignment statement should go together, in my book. So something like
is a good block statement. It's clear to see the group. If for some reason this is a really long start statement so the "name <- c(..." puts the block 20 spaces out or something, then I'd probably block them under the assignment line
The trailing closing parenthesis may or may not add clarity. I usually don't do it these days, but it works like an opening closing brace in this case, and is common SQL programming (with the accompanying semicolon).
I usually use that last type of statement for non-assignment blocks, particularly functions or convoluted statements, because then your indent is less about blocking one entity (a single c(...) block) but grouping complexity (like a bracketed {...} clause).
In fact, using the default (vertical auto-indent) it did exactly the above!
Correction. Uncheck the "Vertically align arguments in auto-indent" box and it WILL do what he wants lol
But personally, a block assignment statement should go together, in my book. So something like
Code:
weeks <- c("Monday", "Tuesday",
"Wednday", "Thursday",
"Friday", "Saturday",
"Sunday")
Code:
# Not my first choice
weeks <-
c("Monday", "Tuesday",
"Wednday", "Thursday",
"Friday", "Saturday",
"Sunday"
)
# OR
weeks <- c(
"Monday", "Tuesday",
"Wednday", "Thursday",
"Friday", "Saturday",
"Sunday"
)I usually use that last type of statement for non-assignment blocks, particularly functions or convoluted statements, because then your indent is less about blocking one entity (a single c(...) block) but grouping complexity (like a bracketed {...} clause).
Code:
foo <- lapply(foobar, function(x) {
... do stuff here ..
})Re: [TS EDITOR WARS] General thread for recommendations, discussion and tips on edito
Alright now that this thread has been thoroughly highjacked (Mods may want to break this off and I'll change my RStudio related con). The problem was fixed as Dason/Bg suggest and in the project I had opened the .Rproj actually was over riding the default options and that tab needed to be set to 4 as well.
Alright now that this thread has been thoroughly highjacked (Mods may want to break this off and I'll change my RStudio related con). The problem was fixed as Dason/Bg suggest and in the project I had opened the .Rproj actually was over riding the default options and that tab needed to be set to 4 as well.
