Auto translation of equal sign = to assign operator <-

[abduazizR]

System details:

Positron and OS details:

Positron Version: 2024.08.0 (Universal) build 5
Code - OSS Version: 1.91.0
Commit: Unknown
Date: 2024-08-06T17:08:14.498Z (2 wks ago)
Electron: 29.4.0
Chromium: 122.0.6261.156
Node.js: 20.9.0
V8: 12.2.281.27-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.6.0

Interpreter details:

R 4.4.1

Describe the issue:

I noticed that in R scripts, whenever I copy something like x = 8 and paste it in another place in the script, the = transforms automatically to <-

I am unsure if it's a bug or if something is incorrectly specified in my settings.

Thanks

[DavisVaughan]

If you are using styler, this is probably just an artifact of styler getting to format your code on paste. I think it changes = to <-

You can turn this setting off if you want to otherwise keep using styler (but if you run format document it will probably also convert equals to assignment then too)

[abduazizR]

Thanks for the super quick response. Is there a way to keep the formatter but prevent it from making this translation?

[lionel-]

@abduazizR I'm not familiar with styler but it doesn't seem like there's an option you could set unfortunately: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50660401/use-instead-of-for-assignment-when-styling-r-code-with-styler

We're planning to implement our own formatter. We'll need a way to declare the assignment op, and also auto-detect it from the file.

[juliasilge]

Related to #4009 and #2251