Below is a comprehensive list with all hooks from {precommit} as well
as their arguments or flags, if they take any. With the standard config
file that gets placed in your project with
precommit::use_precommit()
all hooks should work out of the
box, but you can further customize them as described below. Other repos
also host hooks, many are listed here.
File modification
Some hooks will fail without changing the files you want to commit,
like the lintr
hook - and you need to make manual changes
for the hook to pass on the next attempt. Other hooks like the
roxygenize
hook write to files, and if that changes the
file, the hook will fail, but this means for most hooks you won’t need
to modify the file manually after the attempted commit, just stage the
changes and try to commit again. Below, we indicate for every hook if it
modifies files or not.
Arguments
Arguments for the hooks are specified as described in the pre-commit.com documentation.1 You can specify arguments like this:
repos:
- repo: https://github.com/lorenzwalthert/precommit
rev: v0.3.2
hooks:
- id: lintr
args: [--warn-only, --key=value]
Other hook settings
Apart from specifying the args
key as described above,
there are other hooks settings you can specify, e.g. file exclusion. If
you don’t, they are inherited from the default repository’s
configuration (i.e. the .pre-commit-hooks.yaml
file in https://github.com/lorenzwalthert/precommit). See the pre-commit
documentation, for the available settings.
style-files
A hook to style files with styler. Only commit code
corresponding to the tidyverse style guide. You can pass arguments to style_file(...)
using the --key=value
syntax like this:
id: style-files
args: [--scope=spaces, --reindention=specify_reindention('#')]
In addition, the hook takes the following arguments that are not
passed to style_file(...)
:
style_pkg
and style_fun
default
to styler
and tidyverse_style
. If you want to
use another style guide than the tidyverse style guide, you can specify
it like this: id: style-files
args: [--style_pkg=pkg.with.style.guide, --style_fun=exported.style.function]
The argument --no-warn-cache
is deprecated and will
be removed in a future release. Please remove it from your
.pre-commit-config.yaml
.
Argument cache-root
is passed to
options()
to set styler.cache_root
. Default
value: styler-perm
. The argument determines the
sub-directory under the {R.cache} cache directory that {styler} uses. If
you want {styler} to auto-clean up caches older than 6 days, set this to
"styler"
. For more information, see
help("caching", package = "styler")
.
id: style-files
args: [--cache-root=styler]
ignore-start
and ignore-stop
is
passed to options()
to set styler.ignore_start
and styler.ignore_stop
respectively. Not set by default, so
the {styler} defaults apply. This was introduced in {precommit}
0.2.2.9012. For example, if you want to restore old behavior of styler
< 1.6.2, where only the literals styler: off
and
styler: on
were accepted, use this regex: id: style-files
args: [--ignore-start="^# styler: on$", --ignore-stop="^# styler: off$"]
This hook modifies files unless you specify --dry=fail
(requires {styler} > 1.3.2
).
readme-rmd-rendered
Make sure README.Rmd
hasn’t been edited more recently
than README.md
, i.e. remind you to render the
.Rmd
to .md
before committing.
This hook does not modify files.
parsable-R
Checks if your .R
and .Rmd
files are
“valid” R code by checking if running parse()
on them (or
their knitr::purl()
ed output for .Rmd
) returns
an error.
This hook does not modify files.
no-browser-statement
Guarantees you that you don’t accidentally commit code with a
browser()
statement in it.
This hook does not modify files.
no-debug-statement
Guarantees you that you don’t accidentally commit code with a
debug()
or debugonce()
statement in it.
This hook does not modify files. This hook was added in version 0.2.2.9012.
spell-check
Checks spelling with spelling::spell_check_files()
.
Excluded files
When you invoke precommit::use_precommit()
and
.pre-commit-config.yaml
is written to your repo (unless you
specify config_source
otherwise), we copy the expression in
the exclude:
key from spell check hook the default
repository’s configuration (i.e. the .pre-commit-hooks.yaml
file in https://github.com/lorenzwalthert/precommit) into your
config file, so you can easily add or remove some files. As of v0.3.2,
the following regex is used to exclude files following the verbose python regex
syntax:
(?x)^(
.*\.[rR]|
.*\.feather|
.*\.jpeg|
.*\.pdf|
.*\.png|
.*\.py|
.*\.RData|
.*\.rds|
.*\.Rds|
.*\.Rproj|
.*\.sh|
(.*/|)\.gitignore|
(.*/|)\.pre-commit-.*|
(.*/|)\.Rbuildignore|
(.*/|)\.Renviron|
(.*/|)\.Rprofile|
(.*/|)\.travis\.yml|
(.*/|)appveyor\.yml|
(.*/|)NAMESPACE|
(.*/|)renv/settings\.dcf|
(.*/|)renv\.lock|
(.*/|)WORDLIST|
\.github/workflows/.*|
data/.*|
)$
language
The lang
arg will be passed to
spelling::spell_check_files()
.
id: spell-check
args: [--lang=<language>]
This hook does not modify input files. It will add all words not
found in the dictionary to inst/WORDLIST
, assuming they
were spelled correctly but were not in the dictionary. An example might
be “RStudio”. The hook error message will contain all words written to
inst/WORDLIST
, so if there were really some typos, make
sure to fix them and remove them from inst/WORDLIST
. If
there were not typos, or you fixed all, stage inst/WORDLIST
and this time, the commit should pass.
roxygenize
A hook to run roxygen2::roxygenize()
. Makes sure you
commit your .Rd
changes with the source changes. To take
advantage of caching, you don’t need to run
roxygen2::roxygenize()
manually anymore. The argument
--no-warn-cache
is deprecated and will be removed in a
future release. Please remove it from your
.pre-commit-config.yaml
.
Because the hook will write the version of {roxygen2} to
DESCRIPTON
, you should either make sure the version you use
when you call {roxygen2} interactively matches the one from in
{precommit} or simply not run {roxygen2} manually.
If you specify additional roclets through the Roxygen:
field in DESCRIPTION
, e.g. from {pkgapi} you must specify the
dependencies explicitly such that renv::install()
understands it, e.g.
id: roxygenize
additional_dependencies:
- r-lib/pkgapi
This hook does not modify input files, but writes to .Rd
files in man/
, NAMESPACE
and potentially
others depending on which roxygen roclets you specified in
DESCRIPTION
.
deps-in-desc
Checks if packages used with the pkgname::fun()
syntax
are listed in your DESCRIPTION file. Note that README.Rmd
is never checked. Flag allow_private_imports
lets the user
specify that private imports into the package namespace are tolerable,
e.g. somepkg:::x()
. Flag not set by default, i.e. the hook
will fail if such a call is found.
id: deps-in-desc
args: [--allow_private_imports]
This hook does not modify the file DESCRIPTION
because
the user should decide for each package if it should go to
Imports:
or Suggests:
, which can be done
easily with usethis::use_package()
.
use-tidy-description
A hook to run usethis::use_tidy_description()
to ensure
dependencies are ordered alphabetically and fields are in standard
order.
This hook does modify the file DESCRIPTION
.
lintr
A hook to run lintr::lint()
to check that R files are
lint free. Argument warning_only
changes the behavior of
the pre-commit to be non-blocking. You should set this with the field
verbose: true
.
id: lintr
args: [--warn_only]
verbose: true
When configured this way, lintr prints lint errors as they appear.
Other arguments are not supported. Instead, lintr
config
should be specified in a .lintr
config file in Debian
Control Field Format as specified in the .lintr
documentation.
This hook does not modify any file.
codemeta-description-updated
Make sure DESCRIPTION
hasn’t been edited more recently
than codemeta.json
,
i.e. remind you to run codemetar::write_codemeta()
in
order to keep codemeta.json
in sync with
DESCRIPTION
.
This hook does not modify any file.
Note that there might be issues with arguments that contain special characters and you might have to quote them and the order of single, double and escaped quotes may not give identical results on one platform and may not be portable to all platforms either.↩︎