simpar1471/parkr

An R package with functions I find personally useful. Your mileage may vary.

parkR: Functions I find helpful in R

The parkR package contains functions which I find useful as I’m working in R, especially when making reports. Included are some functions for quickly setting up HTML notebooks with {rmarkdown} and {bookdown}, and some helpful functions for applying Markdown, LaTeX commands, or HTML tags to text data in R.

Installation

You can install the development version of parkR using the devtools package:

devtools::install_github(repo = "simpar1471/parkR")

Useful functions

use_rmd_html()

This function generates a main .rmd file, either with or without children, and sets some nice defaults for its use. This .rmd file will knit to HTML.

use_bibliography()

This function generates a folder containing a .bib and .csl file for including citations in R Markdown documents. I’ve written this as I often need to cite sources in my work, but the basic R Markdown project setup in PyCharm does not include these features.

use_rmd_sections()

This function generates a folder containing child .rmd files. These can be included in the parent rmd. file using the knitr chunk option child = ... and a suitable use of base::list.files().

Plans for updates

• Add use_rmd_pdf(), use_rmd_powerpoint() and friends to automate these tasks as well.
• Increase coverage of {testthat}-based unit testing.
• Add a function for setting my preferred {ggplot2}
• Write out the use_hex_sticker() function, for use during package development.

Feedback

Feedback is greatly appreciated, and should be done on the GitHub issues page. Please be kind.