Modify `.lintr` file search algorithm

[tonyk7440]

We have a multi language team and I am trying to roll out a common linter for the team instead of a different structure for each language. I've been testing super-linter with R and I am coming into a few issues for R.

One is that super-linter expects configurations files all live in the folder .github/linters but it seems from here that lintr doesn't check that path meaning that running functions in RStudio don't detect the above file.

I currently have two .lintr files, one in the project root and one in .github/linters that are just a copy of one another to get around this issue.

Wondering if .github/linters could be added to the search list?

[MichaelChirico]

What about making it a symlink instead? That way you can still maintain only one config

[AshesITR]

I would suggest to use a symlink or, in case of a company-wide config, use $HOME/.lintr locally.

[tonyk7440]

Thanks for the responses!

I tried the symlink approach but this does not work when using a Windows and Google drive.

For the $HOME approach, the problem I see with this is that you still need two .lintr files, one in .github/linters and another in $HOME. And also, since the file in $HOME is not per project then when exclusions need to be specified for different projects they all need to be added in the same file