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[Bioc-devel] BiocCheck space indentation in Rmakrdown vignette documents

5 messages · Carlos A. Catania (AKA Harpo), Mike Smith, Martin Morgan

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Hello BioConductor Team,

We are in the final steps prior to submitting a new package to
Bioconductor.  As recommended, we want our package to pass BiocCheck with
no Errors, Warnings, or Notes. However, we have a problem regarding the
indentation of a vignette written rmarkdown.

-- BEGIN BiocCheck output --
[3] "Consider multiples of 4 spaces for line indents, 11 lines(0%) are not
-- END BiocCheck output --

The problem seems to be the indentation required for yaml syntax of the
author section.  In the section, we have several authors, affiliations, and
emails using just multiple of 2 space indentation. The problem is that we
could found a way to correctly indent such a section without breaking the
vignette construction process.

We have observed that In section 3.1 of the biocstyle vignette about
authoring using Rmarkdown (
https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/BiocStyle/inst/doc/AuthoringRmdVignettes.html)
The author and affiliation sections uses just 2 spaces instead of the
recommended multiple of 4.

So, in your opinion, what would the recommended strategy for dealing with
this issue?
Regards,

Carlos A. Catania (AKA Harpo)
2 days later
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Hi Carlos,

I don't think you need to worry about this.

The 4 space indentation is a style recommendation (not a requirement), and
if the only place that your code isn't meeting that recommendation is the
YAML header then I can't imagine that any reviewer will worry too much
about this.  The review process is also a dialog between the package author
and reviewer, so you have a chance to explain reasons why your code may be
triggering BiocCheck messages, and if the explanation is reasonable (as
this sounds) then it will probably be accepted by the reviewer.

Best wishes,
Mike

On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 22:17, Carlos A. Catania (AKA Harpo) <
harpomaxx at gmail.com> wrote:

            

  
  
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See also this issue https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocCheck/issues/100 .

?On 7/25/20, 4:57 PM, "Bioc-devel on behalf of Mike Smith" <bioc-devel-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of grimbough at gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi Carlos,

    I don't think you need to worry about this.

    The 4 space indentation is a style recommendation (not a requirement), and
    if the only place that your code isn't meeting that recommendation is the
    YAML header then I can't imagine that any reviewer will worry too much
    about this.  The review process is also a dialog between the package author
    and reviewer, so you have a chance to explain reasons why your code may be
    triggering BiocCheck messages, and if the explanation is reasonable (as
    this sounds) then it will probably be accepted by the reviewer.

    Best wishes,
    Mike

    On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 22:17, Carlos A. Catania (AKA Harpo) <
harpomaxx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello BioConductor Team,
    >
    > We are in the final steps prior to submitting a new package to
    > Bioconductor.  As recommended, we want our package to pass BiocCheck with
    > no Errors, Warnings, or Notes. However, we have a problem regarding the
    > indentation of a vignette written rmarkdown.
    >
    > -- BEGIN BiocCheck output --
    > [3] "Consider multiples of 4 spaces for line indents, 11 lines(0%) are not
    > -- END BiocCheck output --
    >
    > The problem seems to be the indentation required for yaml syntax of the
    > author section.  In the section, we have several authors, affiliations, and
    > emails using just multiple of 2 space indentation. The problem is that we
    > could found a way to correctly indent such a section without breaking the
    > vignette construction process.
    >
    > We have observed that In section 3.1 of the biocstyle vignette about
    > authoring using Rmarkdown (
    >
    > https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/BiocStyle/inst/doc/AuthoringRmdVignettes.html
    > )
    > The author and affiliation sections uses just 2 spaces instead of the
    > recommended multiple of 4.
    >
    > So, in your opinion, what would the recommended strategy for dealing with
    > this issue?
    > Regards,
    >
    > Carlos A. Catania (AKA Harpo)
    >
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    >
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Hello, Mike,
Thanks for your answer and info about the review process.
As recommended by Lori we filled a bug report about the issue.

Thanks again and best regards

Carlos A. Catania (AKA Harpo)


El s?b., 25 jul. 2020 a las 17:56, Mike Smith (<grimbough at gmail.com>)
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Thanks, Martin, that is actually my bug report. I'm considering doing a
pull-request with a fix. However, I don't have a clear idea yet on how to
deal with the YAML portion of a .rmd file.
Regards
Carlos A. Catania (AKA Harpo)


El dom., 26 jul. 2020 a las 10:14, Martin Morgan (<mtmorgan.bioc at gmail.com>)
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