options(stringr.html = TRUE) does not work

[lucavalery]

Since stringr 1.5.0, str_view() generates, by default, an ANSI output in the console; with the option html = TRUE, a html output (in the Viewer in an .R script, in html in a rendered markdown).
The documentation of stringr::str_view() specifies that it is possible to set the glopal option stringr.html = TRUE to avoid specifying the option html = TRUE in every call to str_view() (thus reproducing a useful default behaviour of the older versions of stringr):

However, this global option does not seem to work.

This code:

library(stringr)
options(stringr.html = TRUE)
c("a cat", "that dog", "a similar cat", "the penguin") |> str_view("cat")

still causes the default behaviour of printing, in the Console,

Whereas specifying the option in a single call does work, with the html in the Viewer:

c("a cat", "that dog", "a similar cat", "the penguin") |> str_view("cat", html = TRUE)

The Posit community helped to verify that indeed str_view() does not seem to call at all stringr.html, and that that sentence in the documentation is the only place this option is mentioned in the repo. Therefore, this could be a bug.

I am working on Posit Cloud (R version 4.3.1 and RStudio Pro 2023.09.1, Build 494.pro2), stringr 1.5.0. Thank you in advance for your attention!

[Hadley Wickham]

That looks like a bit of documentation I forgot to update 😞 If you want this behaviour you can just make your own wrapper in an early chunk:

str_view <- function(...) {
  stringr::str_view(..., html = TRUE)
}