https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/rstudio/ Recent content in Rstudio on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/07/08/rproj-dupes/ Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/07/08/rproj-dupes/ tl;dr I keep opening more than one instance of the same RStudio Project and it’s annoying me, so I wrote a function to warn me on startup. Double trouble Sometimes I write code in an RStudio Project and then go and do something else. My memory is terrible, so later I might open a second instance of the same project and wonder what happened to that code I’d written before. 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/2020/09/15/rstudio-settings/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/15/rstudio-settings/ tl;dr I share my RStudio setup and some features of the IDE I often use. Tell me about your setup. Configuration IDEation R has a decent community online. People love to share opinions about design, customisation and workflow efficiencies. Why is there little at the intersection? What I do see is people excited to hear about a checkbox or shortcut they never knew existed. I also hear from colleagues who are learning R and want to know more about customising their experience. 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. https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/08/25/holepunch-drake/ Sun, 25 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/08/25/holepunch-drake/ tl;dr Binder lets people explore your GitHub-based R code in a live, browser-based instance of RStudio – for free. Set-up for R projects is quick with {holepunch}. I’ve used {holepunch} on my {drake} demo repo. Click the ‘launch binder’ badge in the repo’s README. Icing on the {drake} I wrote about how Will Landau’s excellent {drake} package could be used to minimise errors and speed up the production of statistical reports by the UK government. https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/11/04/r-train-pkmn/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/11/04/r-train-pkmn/ Psyduck hurt itself in its confusion (via Giphy) You teach me and I’ll teach you I wrote in a recent post about some training materials I wrote for teaching R Markdown. Now I’m sharing another thing I made: Beginner R and RStudio Training (featuring Pokémon!). It’s an introduction to R, RStudio, R Projects, directory structure and the tidyverse. It uses Pokémon Go1 data that I collected myself.2 You can: