https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/blogsnip/ Recent content in Blogsnip on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 19 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/02/19/backtick/ Sat, 19 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/02/19/backtick/ tl;dr I wrote a tiny R package called {backtick}, which contains an RStudio Addin with a handful of functions for inserting backticks into your R scripts and R Markdown documents (yes, really). Plus one RStudio Addins let you select an R function from a dropdown menu in the RStudio IDE. They’re often functions that you don’t need in your executed script, but can make your life easier by performing some kind of supportive action. https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/31/add-biscuits/ Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/31/add-biscuits/ tl;dr I wrote a novelty R function that inserts comments after closing parentheses with the names of the functions they belong to. (These are called biscuits, apparently.) It’s available as an RStudio Addin from the {blogsnip} package. Matryoshka functions Shiny apps can involve a lot of nested functions in the UI, which can make them difficult to handle. Sometimes I comment after a closing parenthesis (‘paren’) with the name of the function that it’s closing, which makes it easier to match the pairs. https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/10/22/blogsnip/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/10/22/blogsnip/ Inserting a details block with the {blogsnip} addin tl;dr On my commute home I made {blogsnip}: a tiny package of RStudio addins that add snippets of R code to help me write blog posts. Install with: install.packages("remotes") remotes::install_github("matt-dray/blogsnip") The problem I’m lazy. There’s some bits of code I often want to put in my blog posts (written in R Markdown) but I can’t remember them. In particular: an expandable ‘details’ section1, which sometimes contains R session information and the date of the post’s last update (see examples throughout this previous post) a way to add an image with a caption and alt text that differ (like the gif at the top of this post), something that makes the images more accessible for users of screen readers, for example a link that opens in a new tab, rather than in the tab where you’re reading a post (as per this tweet by Albert Y Kim) Originally I stored them in a GitHub Gist, but this is sub-optimal: the internet connection on my commute can be patchy.