Issues

• [bioc] Add a linter to enforce NO spaces around certain infix operators.

  r-lib/lintr#3127 · Filter by author adityaruplaha opened on Sep 2, 2026
  12

• regex '^' or '$' (i.e., trivial boundary check) should lint

  feature
  r-lib/lintr#3126 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Aug 31, 2026

• get_source_expressions() doesn't handle #line directives correctly

  bug
  r-lib/lintr#3106 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Aug 12, 2026

• Recommend using partial sorting where possible

  r-lib/lintr#3098 · Filter by author Bisaloo opened on Jul 31, 2026
  1

• Lint inefficient ways to check for "integer-ness"

  r-lib/lintr#3096 · Filter by author Bisaloo opened on Jul 25, 2026
  2

• Combine rules related to regular expressions: regex_linter

  breaking change ☠️
  r-lib/lintr#3091 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Jul 20, 2026 · 3.5.0

• Combine rules related to pipes: pipe_linter

  breaking change ☠️
  r-lib/lintr#3087 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Jul 17, 2026 · 3.5.0

• Make rev(sort(.)) -> sort(decreasing=TRUE) rule optional

  feature
  r-lib/lintr#3083 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Jul 17, 2026
  1

• Discourage downstreams using {lintr} in Suggests

  r-lib/lintr#3079 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Jul 15, 2026
  8

• paste_linter could lint paste(x, sep='.', collapse=',') where sep= has no effect

  feature
  r-lib/lintr#3077 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Jul 15, 2026

• namespace_linter() is OS-dependent

  consistency 🍎 🍏
  r-lib/lintr#3075 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Jul 9, 2026

• Improve rev(sort()) metadata for how to handle na.last

  lint-metadata
  r-lib/lintr#3068 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Jul 6, 2026

• Recommend if (nzchar(x)) instead of if (nchar(x))

  r-lib/lintr#3058 · Filter by author Bisaloo opened on Jun 12, 2026
  6

• use_lintr() shouldn't error on existing config

  dev-workflow
  r-lib/lintr#3057 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Jun 10, 2026

• commas_linter() could allow spaces before commas to match air

  air-compatibility
  r-lib/lintr#3053 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Jun 3, 2026

• return_linter() should ignore some (all?) terminal repeat{} statements

  false-positive
  r-lib/lintr#3044 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on May 15, 2026

• Best practices linters from the R documentation

  new-linter
  r-lib/lintr#3037 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Mar 23, 2026

• recommend canCoerce over try(as())

  new-linter
  r-lib/lintr#3036 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Mar 23, 2026

• Recommend crossprod() / tcrossprod()

  r-lib/lintr#3035 · Filter by author Bisaloo opened on Mar 23, 2026

• object_length_linter and object_name_linter crash when lint is called with empty filename

  r-lib/lintr#3032 · Filter by author jbodart-argenx opened on Mar 21, 2026

• New lint: recommend expect_match() and expect_no_match()

  r-lib/lintr#3030 · Filter by author etiennebacher opened on Mar 21, 2026

• Lint nested test_that() usage

  new-linter
  r-lib/lintr#3028 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Mar 19, 2026

• Support type = "bioconductor"

  r-lib/lintr#3027 · Filter by author ahl27 opened on Mar 13, 2026
  5

• object_usage_linter false positive: Variable assigned **and used** within with flagged as unused

  blocked-externalfalse-positive
  r-lib/lintr#3020 · Filter by author katrinabrock opened on Mar 3, 2026
  1

• Add check for duplicated index variables in nested for loops?

  r-lib/lintr#3014 · Filter by author etiennebacher opened on Feb 8, 2026
  1