Mathieu,

ESS has several options on indenting code.
Please look at ess-style-alist in file ess-custom.el and then try the
styles out.
My guess is that style RRR is the one you are looking for.
If you need something else, then you can probably figure out how to set the
parameters
for your needs.  When you have what you want, give it a name and send it to
us for
inclusion in the next release.

Rich

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Mathieu Basille
<basille@ase-research.org>wrote:

> Le 16/12/2011 08:49, Vitalie Spinu a écrit :
> > Mathieu Basille <basille@ase-research.org> writes:
> >
> >> Dear Vitalie,
> >>
> >> Thanks for you comment. My first message was not perfectly clear... Your
> >> example with 'foo' is misleading, since foo is exactly 3 character long.
> >> Take this silly example instead:
> >>
> >> foo <- function(aaaaaaaaaa = 1, bbbbbbbbbb = 2, cccccccccc = 3,
> >>                 dddddddddd = 4, eeeeeeeeee = 5)
> >> {
> >>     return(data.frame(aaaaaaaaaa, bbbbbbbbbb, cccccccccc, dddddddddd,
> >>                       eeeeeeeeee))
> >> }
> >>
> >> The new line formatted by ESS starts just after the opening parenthesis.
> >> If I save the file in bla.R and source it with 'keep.source = FALSE' to
> >> use the R parser, here is what I get:
> >>
> >>> options(keep.source = FALSE)
> >>> source("bla.R")
> >>> foo
> >> function (aaaaaaaaaa = 1, bbbbbbbbbb = 2, cccccccccc = 3, dddddddddd =
> 4,
> >>     eeeeeeeeee = 5)
> >> {
> >>     return(data.frame(aaaaaaaaaa, bbbbbbbbbb, cccccccccc, dddddddddd,
> >>         eeeeeeeeee))
> >> }
> >
> > Ok, I got it. Check the keep.source option:
> >
> > options("keep.source")
> >
> > If it's FALSE I am getting your output and this is the problem of R, ESS
> > cannot easily help you here. In my setup  keep.source is T, so I am
> > getting everything ok.
>
> It is OK from an ESS perspective only. From a R perspective, it is not.
> The main problem is that R and ESS do not format code the same way, and
> I'd like to use R formatting, not ESS. The 'keep.source' option is
> usually set to TRUE, but is generally set to FALSE for packages (which
> makes formatting of R code consistent). Using 'keep.source = TRUE' does
> not format at all the code; what the user wrote is totally kept as-is.
> Basically, I'd like to write code which follows the rules of R itself.
> In my opinion, this is a problem of ESS, not R!
>
> Is there really no possibility to get the R behaviour here? What I
> normally do is 1) write my functions, 2) source them using 'keep.source
> = FALSE' to use the R parser, and 3) paste them back in my .R/Rnw file.
> But this is messy since it then conflicts with ESS style (e.g. every
> time I add a new line, or hit C-M-q, the formatting gets changed back to
> ESS rules)...
>
> Thanks for your answer,
> Mathieu.
>
>
> > HTH,
> > Vitalie.
> >
> >>
> >> That is, the new line simply adds 4 spaces from the left margin (not
> >> from the opening parenthesis, which, I agree, would make no sense) and
> >> do not start after the opening parenthesis. There is two reasons I would
> >> like to have this behaviour with ESS: 1) first, it would not change the
> >> formatting of my functions if I source them with the R parser, and 2) it
> >> can be a real source of nightmares when there are many nested
> >> parentheses, and everything gets pushed to the right.
> >>
> >> All the best,
> >> Mathieu.
> >>
> >> Le 16/12/2011 06:32, Vitalie Spinu a écrit :
> >>> Mathieu Basille <basille@ase-research.org> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> Dear ESS gurus,
> >>>>
> >>>> I feel like I'm really missing something... I searched heavily on the
> net, in
> >>>> the ESS manual, on this list, without finding what I'm looking
> >> for. Basically,
> >>>> when I try to indent some code (with M-C-q), if a line break occurs
> in the
> >>>> middle of parentheses or brackets, the next line will be indented to
> the
> >> first
> >>>> character after the parenthesis. How can I get rid of this, and get a
> >> normal' 4
> >>>> spaces indentation? (this is, I think, the behaviour of the R parser)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I am not really understanding that. You mean that
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     foo(arg1 = 1, arg2 = 2,
> >>>         arg3 = 3)
> >>>
> >>> Is not what you want? and you would like:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     foo(arg1 = 1, arg2 = 2,
> >>>             arg3 = 3)
> >>>
> >>> instead?
> >>>
> >>> Doesn't make sense to me.
> >>>
> >>> Vitalie.
>
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