Pattern: Missing use of &&/||
Issue: -
Usage of & in conditional statements is error-prone and inefficient. condition in if (condition) expr must always be length-1, in which case && is to be preferred. Ditto for | vs. ||.
Note that because & and | are generics, it is possible that && / || are not perfect substitutes because & is doing method dispatch in an incompatible way.
Moreover, be wary of code that may have side effects, most commonly assignments. Consider if ((a <- foo(x)) | (b <- bar(y))) { ... } vs. if ((a <- foo(x)) || (b <- bar(y))) { ... }. Because || exits early, if a is TRUE, the second condition will never be evaluated and b will not be assigned. Such usage is not allowed by the Tidyverse style guide, and the code can easily be refactored by pulling the assignment outside the condition, so using || is still preferable.