[Rd] bug in utils:::format.person

[Achim Zeileis]

Apologies, I missed Ivan's fix to the problem (my day was too long...) 
which is, of course, better than mine.

On Sat, 3 Jun 2023, Achim Zeileis wrote:

> Thierry,
>
> thanks for this, this is a bug in utils:::.format_person_as_R_code(). This 
> calls deparse() on the elements of the person object with the default 
> width.cutoff = 60. As your comment exceeds this width, the erroneous 
> formatting is produced. The simplest reproducible example I could come up 
> with was:
>
> p <- person(".", comment = c(foo = ".....................",
>  bar = "....................."))
> writeLines(format(p, style = "R"))
>
> This can be fixed in line 1017 of utils/R/citation.R either by increasing the 
> width.cutoff, e.g.,
>
>  sprintf("%s = %s", names(e), sapply(e, deparse, width.cutoff = 500L))
>
> but, of course, this still has an arbitrary cutoff. So maybe better
>
>  sprintf("%s = %s", names(e), sapply(e,
>    function(x) paste(deparse(x), collapse = "")))
>
> which should work.
>
> I'll ping Kurt about this and try to coordinate a fix.
>
> Best wishes,
> Achim
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2023, Thierry Onkelinx via R-devel wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I think I found a bug in utils::format.person when using style = "R" with a
>> vector of comments. The comment section is not parsed properly. Please find
>> below the mwe and the session info.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Thierry
>> 
>> maintainer <- person(
>>  given = "Thierry", family = "Onkelinx", role = c("aut", "cre"),
>>  email = "thierry.onkelinx using inbo.be",
>>  comment = c(
>>    ORCID = "0000-0001-8804-4216",
>>    affiliation = "Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)"
>>  )
>> )
>> format(maintainer, style = "R") |>
>>  cat(sep = "\n")
>> # output
>> person(given = "Thierry",
>>       family = "Onkelinx",
>>       role = c("aut", "cre"),
>>       email = "thierry.onkelinx using inbo.be",
>>       comment = c("c(ORCID = \"0000-0001-8804-4216\", affiliation =
>> \"Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)\"", ")"))
>> 
>> ─ Session info
>> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
>> setting  value
>> version  R version 4.3.0 (2023-04-21)
>> os       Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
>> system   x86_64, linux-gnu
>> ui       X11
>> language nl_BE:nl
>> collate  nl_BE.UTF-8
>> ctype    nl_BE.UTF-8
>> tz       Europe/Brussels
>> date     2023-06-02
>> pandoc   NA
>> 
>> ─ Packages
>> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
>> package     * version date (UTC) lib source
>> cli           3.6.1   2023-03-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
>> fortunes      1.5-4   2016-12-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
>> sessioninfo   1.2.2   2021-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ir. Thierry Onkelinx
>> Statisticus / Statistician
>> 
>> Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders
>> INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND
>> FOREST
>> Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
>> thierry.onkelinx using inbo.be
>> Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel
>> www.inbo.be
>> 
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