How to control the behaviour of lintr in Visual Studio Code?

Question

Switching from Rstudio to VS Code. Biggest problem right now: the linters are constantly bothering me! Take the snippet as an example:

object_name_linter is trying to make me name my variable as group_markers instead of group.markers. However, in the R community, it's rather common to see . within variable names. I couldn't figure out a good way to turn off this linter.

Answer 1

To turn off this specific linter globally, create a config file ~/.lintr

linters: with_defaults(
    object_name_linter = NULL
  )

A list of linters: https://lintr.r-lib.org/reference/linters.html

For example, to also disable the linter for maximum line length = 80, the config file ~/.lintr should be:

linters: with_defaults(
    object_name_linter = NULL,
    line_length_linter = NULL
  )