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static analysis tools for R code?

4 messages · Vivek Rao, Dimitris Rizopoulos, Luke Tierney +1 more

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An R script will terminate when one tries to use an
undefined variable, with a message such as 

Error in print(x) : Object "x" not found

This run-time error might occur after the script has
already been running for some time. In some cases it
would be nice to get such warnings before the script
is run, just as a syntax error caused by a missing
parenthesis is caught.

Are there any "static analysis" tools for R? Such a
tool would not have to be perfect to be useful.
Besides using undefined variables, defining variables
that are never used is something I'd like to be warned
about.
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If I understand well what you need then (I think) the answer is No; 
this is a feature of the language called "Lazy Evaluation". For more 
info look at e.g., the "R Language Definition" document, section 
4.3.3.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vivek Rao" <rvivekrao at yahoo.com>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 4:18 PM
Subject: [R] static analysis tools for R code?
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There are some preliminary tools available in the codetools package
at

 	http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/codetools/

Hopefully these will be cleaned up and released via CRAN or
incorporated into R this summer.

luke
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:

            

  
    
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Look at Luke Tierney's codetools package.

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2003-July/027103.html

It is useful, and has been run over R itself several times.
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Vivek Rao wrote: