Is there a way to automatically align function arguments?

Question

In RStudio is there a way to automatically align the equal signs in function arguments?

Similar to the following:

objective         = obj,
eta               = params$eta[i],
gamma             = params$gamma[i],
max_depth         = params$max_depth[i],
colsample_bytree  = params$colsample_bytree[i],
colsample_bylevel = params$colsample_bylevel[i],
lambda            = params$lambda[i],
alpha             = params$alpha[i],
subsample         = params$subsample[i])

I find this much easier to read. If it is not available in RStudio is there a different editor which has this capability?

user_783539 · Answer

I found a solution in the AlignAssign RStudio addin: https://github.com/seasmith/AlignAssign

user_12847824 · Answer

Another option is {remedy}, which is also on CRAN.

That package include addins for aligning equal signs = and assignments <-, plus other addins for working with markdown documents.

Is there a way to automatically align function arguments?

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