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Created March 12, 2019 16:28
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Avoid arg = NULL in R functions
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handle_null.R
handle_null <- function(.data) {
switch(
as.character(missing(.data)),
"TRUE" = NULL,
"FALSE" = .data
)
}
# so we can have docs like this
rx_anything(.data, mode = "greedy")
# instead of
rx_anything(.data = NULL, mode = "greedy")
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