available_linters: Get Linter metadata from a package

Description

available_linters() obtains a tagged list of all Linters available in a package.

available_tags() searches for available tags.

Usage

available_linters(packages = "lintr", tags = NULL, exclude_tags = "deprecated")
available_tags(packages = "lintr")

Value

available_linters returns a data frame with columns 'linter', 'package' and 'tags':

linter: A character column naming the function associated with the linter.

package

A character column containing the name of the package providing the linter.

Arguments

packages: A character vector of packages to search for linters.
tags: Optional character vector of tags to search. Only linters with at least one matching tag will be returned. If tags is NULL, all linters will be returned.
exclude_tags: Tags to exclude from the results. Linters with at least one matching tag will not be returned. If except_tags is NULL, no linters will be excluded.

Package Authors

To implement available_linters() for your package, include a file inst/lintr/linters.csv in your package. The CSV file must contain the columns 'linter' and 'tags', and be UTF-8 encoded. Additional columns will be silently ignored if present and the columns are identified by name. Each row describes a linter by

its function name (e.g. "assignment_linter") in the column 'linter'.
space-separated tags associated with the linter (e.g. "style consistency default") in the column 'tags'.

Tags should be snake_case.

See available_tags("lintr") to find out what tags are already used by lintr.

Examples

Run this code

lintr_linters <- available_linters()

# If the package doesn't exist or isn't installed, an empty data frame will be returned
available_linters("does-not-exist")

lintr_linters2 <- available_linters(c("lintr", "does-not-exist"))
identical(lintr_linters, lintr_linters2)
available_tags()

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