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Plotting validator objects is sensitive to the ordering of the rules #184

@jsphdms

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@jsphdms

Thank you for developing and maintaining this R package! It's been incredibly useful in my work as a Statistician for the Scottish Government.

Description

Plotting validator objects produces different (and sometimes incorrect) plots depending on the order of the rules. The smallest reproducible example I've been able to construct involves 3 rules.

Steps to Reproduce

library(validate)

rules_1 <- validator(
  r1 = a == shared_column,
  r2 = b == shared_column,
  r3 = c == another_column
)

rules_2 <- validator(
  r1 = a == shared_column,
  r3 = c == another_column,
  r2 = b == shared_column
)

plot(rules_1)
plot(rules_2)

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Expected Behaviour

I'm assuming that the ordering of rules in a validator object does not change it's underlying properties, and therefore it's plot should not change. For example, I would expect that plot(rules_1) and plot(rules_2) would produce identical plots.

Actual Behaviour

When switching the order of r2 and r3, the plots change. It seems like the first plot is correct, but the second plot is incorrect.

R Environment

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.2.2 (2022-10-31 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.utf8  LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.utf8    LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                            LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.utf8    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] tidyr_1.2.1      openxlsx_4.2.5.1 rlist_0.4.6.2    yaml_2.3.6       writexl_1.4.2    ggplot2_3.4.0    purrr_1.0.0     
 [8] validate_1.1.1   dplyr_1.0.10     readxl_1.4.1    

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] zip_2.2.2         Rcpp_1.0.9        cellranger_1.1.0  pillar_1.8.1      compiler_4.2.2    tools_4.2.2       lifecycle_1.0.3  
 [8] tibble_3.1.8      gtable_0.3.1      pkgconfig_2.0.3   rlang_1.1.0       DBI_1.1.3         cli_3.5.0         rstudioapi_0.14  
[15] withr_2.5.0       generics_0.1.3    vctrs_0.5.2       grid_4.2.2        tidyselect_1.2.0  glue_1.6.2        data.table_1.14.6
[22] R6_2.5.1          fansi_1.0.3       magrittr_2.0.3    scales_1.2.1      settings_0.2.7    ellipsis_0.3.2    assertthat_0.2.1 
[29] colorspace_2.0-3  utf8_1.2.2        stringi_1.7.8     munsell_0.5.0

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