Use of focus argument causes an error

[wurli]

This is because format_tbl() no longer includes a focus argument, but rather an input with a pillar_focus attribute. This can result in upstream issues in tibble() - see tibble issue #1351 for details.

I'd suggest either retaining a soft-deprecated focus argument and using something like the following in format_tbl(), or improving the error messages somehow (although the focus argument was experimental to begin with).

  #... From line 66
  setup <- tbl_format_setup(x,
    width = width, ...,
    n = n,
    max_extra_cols = max_extra_cols,
    max_footer_lines = max_footer_lines,
    
    # `%||%` allows a user to override the attribute value, meaning old code won't break
    focus = focus %||% attr(x, "pillar_focus")
  )

[krlmlr]

Reprex using only pillar:

tbl <- pillar:::new_tbl(list(a = 1))
print(tbl, focus = "a")
#> Error in tbl_format_setup(x, width = width, ..., n = n, max_extra_cols = max_extra_cols, : formal argument "focus" matched by multiple actual arguments

^{Created on 2022-08-28 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}

[krlmlr]

• Change ?tibble::formatting, the ellipsis is never passed
• Change documentation here

Needs r-lib/rlang#1517 to fully clean up the docs and behavior.

[krlmlr]

Documented in tibble: tidyverse/tibble@e3eac5b, there's nothing to document here.

[krlmlr]

Thanks for reporting!

About to update the main documentation page for tibble: https://tibble.tidyverse.org/reference/formatting.html