[R] r tidy

[George Georgalis]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:35:21PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
>
>Here's a script to tidy a file as argument $1
>
>#!/bin/sh
>R --vanilla <<EOF
>     options(keep.source = FALSE)
>     source("$1")
>     dump(ls(all = TRUE), file = "${1}.tidy.R")
>EOF
>
>
>yes, works great, but as one with nearly zero r experience,
>hoping to apply my other language experience to some R spaghetti,
>http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Tidying-R-code
>did frighten me off, the first time.

Is there a way to tidy code that is broken? instead of a "best
effort" on broken code, I don't get a dump.

also, what is going on when I try to tidy this

     options(keep.source = FALSE)
     source("/dev/null")
     dump(ls(all = TRUE), file = "/dev/null")

with the code above? ie no output.

// George


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