R: Squash a quosure

quo_squash {rlang} | R Documentation

## Squash a quosure

### Description

`quo_squash()` flattens all nested quosures within an expression. For example it transforms `^foo(^bar(), ^baz)` to the bare expression `foo(bar(), baz)`.

This operation is safe if the squashed quosure is used for labelling or printing (see `quo_label()` or `quo_name()`). However if the squashed quosure is evaluated, all expressions of the flattened quosures are resolved in a single environment. This is a source of bugs so it is good practice to set `warn` to `TRUE` to let the user know about the lossy squashing.

### Usage

    quo_squash(quo, warn = FALSE)

### Arguments

`quo` | A quosure or expression.
`warn` | Whether to warn if the quosure contains other quosures (those will be collapsed). This is useful when you use `quo_squash()` in order to make a non-tidyeval API compatible with quosures. In that case, getting rid of the nested quosures is likely to cause subtle bugs and it is good practice to warn the user about it.

### Life cycle

This function replaces `quo_expr()` which was deprecated in rlang 0.2.0. `quo_expr()` was a misnomer because it implied that it was a mere expression acccessor for quosures whereas it was really a lossy operation that squashed all nested quosures.

### Examples

    # Quosures can contain nested quosures:
    quo <- quo(wrapper(!!quo(wrappee)))
    quo

    # quo_squash() flattens all the quosures and returns a simple expression:
    quo_squash(quo)

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