I am trying to using utils::rtags()
to build indexes for R code.
This works fine for *.R files as such.
I have not been able to get it to work for code in Rmarkdown files (*.Rmd).
With the proper pattern argument, it finds the files fine, but seems to completely ignore the code they contain. An empty 'TAGS' file is created. For example:
utils::rtags(pattern='[.]Rmd$', ofile='TAGS', type='etags')
Am I expecting too much?
The short answer is "No, utils::rtags()
does not understand rmarkdown files."
But, https://ctags.io/ may (soon?) provide an alternative solution.
h/t @masatake-yamato (https://stackoverflow.com/users/6386727/masatake-yamato)