Treat scripts in R/ folder as collated - #1382
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Progress towards posit-dev/positron#14790
Progress towards #1338
Files in an
R/folder are now treated in an alphabetical collation, just like in packages. This means they can now see each other's functions.The alphabetical order only matters for top-level expressions (eager context). For lazy contexts (like functions), the symbols resolve to the end-of-collation view, where all symbols from all files are defined.
Goals:
This is not technically needed for the
targets::tar_source()use case which we will support with a more precise mechanism in subsequent PRs.Note that while this allows files in the R/ folder to see each other, this has no effect at the sourcing site, e.g.
tar_source(), or the implicit call toloadSupport()made by Shiny. This is a different side of the problem to be tackled separately.Positron Release Notes
New Features
R/folder are now implicitly treated in an alphabetical collation unless a more precise loading context is determined (go to definition returns no definition found positron#14790). Functions in sibling files can now see each other as long as they are in the sameR/folder. This currently only affects the symbol navigation and renaming features.Bug Fixes