[R] splint / lint-like syntax checker for R

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 04/02/2010 7:33 PM, Mark Huberty wrote:
> Greetings -
> 
> Does CRAN or someone similar make a splint / lint-like syntax checker 
> for R? I realize that both ESS and the debug package and similar tools 
> have debugging and error analysis features, but those appear to require 
> running the code through the R buffer. I'd like something that did basic 
> syntax and object-name verification for code that was to run in batch, 
> as a precursor to doing trial runs. Apologies if this already exists and 
> I missed it, but nothing showed up on Google, CRAN, or r-help that I 
> could find.

The package check code does a lot of this.  It makes use of the 
codetools package for some of the checks.

I don't know if anyone has packaged up the tests to work on a script 
outside of a package; it seems like it would be easier to turn your 
scripts into a package and turn off the tests you don't want.

Duncan Murdoch