curly braces linter and comments

[wamserma]

The curly braces linter wants a newline after an opening curly brace, not accepting comments there.

Example

if ("P" != "NP") { # what most people expect
    print("Cryptomania is possible")
} else { # what would make a lot of people sad
    print("we live in Algorithmica")
}

lintr output:

R\test.R:7:22: style: Opening curly braces should never go on their own line and should always be followed by a new line.
    if ("P" != "NP") { # what most people expect
                     ^
R\test.R:9:12: style: Opening curly braces should never go on their own line and should always be followed by a new line.
    } else { # what would make a lot of people sad

[fangly]

Another case where open_curly_linter() fails, in my opinion, is with standalone code blocks (without leading if/for/while/repeat):

withr::with_options(
     list(verbose=TRUE),
     {
         print("hello")
         print("world")
     }
)

[prosoitos]

I second @wamserma (almost posted a duplicate to this by accident actually 😛 ).

In the meantime, I am using

if ("P" != "NP") {
                                        # what most people expect
    print("Cryptomania is possible")
} else {
                                        # what would make a lot of people sad
    print("we live in Algorithmica")
}

and maybe it makes it more readable???