[Rd] deparse operators in expressions

[Yihui Xie]

Thanks for pointing out the direction. Since this is unlikely to
change in base R, is it possible to change from an add-on package?

I think it is reasonable to eliminate spaces around ^ and :, but I
don't understand why /, %% and %/% should be different with other
arithmetic operators like +, - and *.

Regards,
Yihui
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11-04-09 9:43 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I observed a slight problem in deparse(): it will add spaces around
>> most operators except /. I wonder if this is easy to fix. I know this
>> is quite trivial, but I will appreciate if / is not treated as an
>> exception. Examples:
>
> It's easy to change:  take a look at src/main/deparse.c.  The operators that
> are labelled as PP_BINARY2 get no spaces.  Looking in src/main/names.c, we
> see those are /, ^, %%, %/% and :.
>
> But clearly this is by design, and I think it's unlikely to change.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>