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Introduction
RStudio Addins let you execute a bit of R code or a Shiny app through the RStudio IDE, either via the Addins drop-down menu or with a keyboard shortcut.
Addin list and corresponding addinslist
package let
you “browse RStudio addins”.
This is a list of my top 5 favorite Addins and several very relevant mentions.
Top 5
1. GPTStudio
for automatic spelling, code commenting and code creation
This package is coupled with GPTtools
and OpenAI
.
# Install install.packages("openai") if (!require(remotes)) install.packages("remotes") remotes::install_github("MichelNivard/gptstudio") # For use needs API key Sys.setenv(OPENAI_API_KEY = "<APIKEY>") # OpenAI API key
The addin works on text selection:
“Spelling and Grammar”
2. Static code analysis (linting) and code styling
lintr
withlintr::use_lintr(type = "tidyverse")
In order to show the “Markers” pane in RStudio: Menu “Tools” -> “Global Options…”, a window with title “Options” will pop up. In that window: click “Code” on the left; click “Diagnostics” tab; check “Show diagnostics for R”.
“Lint current file”
lintr
is complementary to the styler
package which automatically restyles code, eliminating some of the problems that lintr
can
detect.
styler
withstyler::tidyverse_style()
“Style section” / “Style active file”
Beyond addin use, lintr
and styler
are excellent at R project level, coupled with precommit
package. Read more about this workflow on
this r-bloggers post.
3. Search R packages on CRAN
-
CRANsearcher
for interactiveCRANsearcher::CRANsearcher()
-
pkgsearch
forpkgsearch::pkg_search("key words")
# For addin to work must install: install.packages("shinyWidgets") install.packages("whoami") # pkgsearch::pkg_search_addin(query = "key word", viewer = c("dialog", "browser"))
“CRANsearcher” / “CRAN Package Search”
4. Reproducible examples with datapasta
& reprex
E.g. use datapasta::tribble_paste()
from .xlsx to R tibble and then reprex::reprex({code goes here}, venue = "so")
to make a reproducible
example in a separate environment, copy output to clipboard and then just paste it to StackOverflow. The same steps can be achieved through
addins:
“Paste as tibble” + “Reprex selection”
5. caseconverter
for name conversions
if (!require(remotes)) install.packages("remotes") remotes::install_github("strboul/caseconverter")
“To upper case” / “To lower case” / “To snake case”
Important mentions:
6. blogdown
Especially for blogdown::new_post()
and blogdown::serve_site()
.
7. bookdown
Especially for bookdown::serve_book()
.
8. Scheduling with cronR
or taskscheduleR
cronR
for Unix/Linux – cronR::cron_rstudioaddin()
taskscheduleR
for Windows – taskscheduleR::taskscheduler_create()
# For taskscheduleR RStudio addin to work, also install: install.packages("miniUI") install.packages("shiny")
9. colourpicker
Especially for colourpicker::colourWidget()
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