Use flint "to find and replace lints in R code"

[SaintRod]

Motivation

Hi, all:

As always, thanks for the great work on Rhino.

I recently heard of a package called flint. Flint is similar to lintr, however, from the flint documentation, "lintr’s performance is not optimal when it is applied on medium to large packages. Also, lintr cannot perform automatic replacement of lints."

Feature request: Automatically fix lints

repo: https://github.com/etiennebacher/flint

Feature description

Lintr highlights lints but relies on the developer to fix them. Automating fixing some of the lints would be quite nice.

Implementation ideas

Either:

1. Create a new function, such as flint_r()
2. Update lint_r to include flint::fix() functionality to automatically address lints

I think option 2 makes more sense. Perhaps run flint::fix to fix lints and then run lintr to highlight which lints remain

Impact

Lintr is great but it doesn't automatically fix lints, flint does, which saves time. It's not the end of the world if flint isn't incorporated, but automation is great, and fixing lints by default vs opting in or fixing lints manually helps ensure greater code quality.

One thing to note is that there isn't 100% overlap between flint and lintr so developers would still have to manually fix lints not addressed by flint

Comments

Thanks for your consideration