RStudio has a wonderful set of skeletons for packages and Rmd documents. But, I'd like to know if it's possible to change the defaults to a "skeleton" of your own design. If, like me, you package your research for yourself/clients, you quickly find yourself deleting and copying the same work over and over.
I suppose there are two related questions here:
Can you change the default package skeleton?
Can you change the default Rmd skeleton?
There is no supported way to do this. However, the skeletons are stored as ordinary files in your filesystem, so there's nothing stopping you from modifying them. For instance, if you're on the Mac, this file provides the default Rmd skeleton:
/Applications/RStudio.app/Contents/Resources/resources/templates/r_markdown_v2.Rmd
On Windows, it's here:
C:\Program Files\RStudio\resources\templates\r_markdown_v2.Rmd
I didn't realize it then, but I was actually looking for a custom format. The details of which are documented extensively on the rmarkdown rstudio site.
http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/developer_custom_formats.html
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i have been trying to implement a tikz chunk in bookdown first by myself, then by following this thread.
unfornutately, i keep running into various errors and incompatibilities, such as this one:
Error in tools::texi2dvi(texf, pdf = !to_svg, clean = TRUE) :
unable to run 'pdflatex' on '.\tikzf702b605920.tex'
(even though by itself tinytex::pdflatex('test.tex') works fine)
on his blog and github Yihui Xie mentioned that it's definitely possible, but i wasn't able to find any working example, so i was hoping if perhaps anyone here could share one, please (or point out what am i doing wrong)
#PaulLemmens, i found what was the problem for me. disclaimer here, i use windows and none of my colleagues who use r on linux/macos have this problem.
issue was arising with knitr when engine=tikz is used in one of the chunks. For it to work installation of imagemagick (https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php) and GhostScript (https://www.ghostscript.com/) is needed. as well as that, i had to rewrite knitr (https://github.com/darthaline/knitr) slightly. it's a quick and dirty solution, but it worked for me. on line 281 of R/engine.R the path to imagemagick's convert is hardcoded cause otherwise it seems that windows interprets it as 'convert.exe' from System32 directory (ImageMagick PATH not being recognized with engine = "tikz" in knitr)
As already mentioned I'm using the Atom text editor.
I'm currently working on a project written in c++. Of course it is desirable to jump to the definition of a function (in another project file), or other uses of this function (within the project). As far as I know this can be achieved with the packages I'll mention below. I want the package to display me the definition along with the path to the corresponding file which holds the definition and ideally the line where it occurs.
I'll welcome any comments and suggestions on how to solve the below mentioned problem(s) I have with (one of) the packages. Moreover I'm also thankful about pointers to possible solutions or posts concerning my problem(s), or how I can achieve this with another package.
Here is what I found / tried / did so far.
goto
Currently I'm using this package, although it is rather slow and does not show the arguments of the function as e.g. atom-ctags does, but it's the only package which displays me the files I need to see.
It shows me where the function is defined as well as where it is also used. However it does not show me the path to the file corresponding file it refers to.
atom-ctags
I also tried this package, building the tags is quite fast and moreover it show me the path to the file. But this package only lists the .cc files and not the .h files. It appears to me as if it only shows me the other uses but not the definition, which is obviously a problem.
I also tried generating the ctags myself and changing the command options in the settings of the package, unfortunately without any success.
Atoms built-in symbols-view
In order to get this to work, one needs to generate the symbols. This can be, for example, achieved with the symbol-gen package. However, it shows me some of the definitions, but also no .h files. Moreover, jumping to the definition results in a Selected file does not exist., therefore it is not usable at all.
goto-definition
Just for completeness, there is also this package. It does not work for me, since c++ is not supported but maybe others will find it useful.
symbols-plus
Again, for completeness, this should be a replacement for the atom built-in, but when disabling the build-in it does not show me any jump functionality nor is a short cut mentioned.
So, basically, nothing really works well. I have tried Symbol Tree View but it but barely works.
It is my first experience in writing an R-package. I used roxygen2 by following the instructions given in this link http://kbroman.org/pkg_primer/
Everythig is working fine except few things.. there could be a simpler solution to solve the issues, but I am not finding clues what I am doing wrong. I hope someone here in this blog can give a solution to solve my issues.
First issue is about {\code\link{function-name}} in roxygen2:
In .R script I inlcuded this line:
#' #seealso \code{\link{s2a}}
After documenting (generating .Rd files) there is no hyperlink to s2a ,
in documentation s2a shows like a normal text not like hyperlink..
export(s2a) is listed out in NAMESPACE.
Is there any other place i need to modify ?
Second issue is about data():
I saved the dataset in .Rdata format and placed in the data/ in package directory. I also created the .R script in R/ as like following steps here http://kbroman.org/pkg_primer/pages/data.html
In DESCRIPTION file LazyData: true .
but when I type data(shh) in R console gives a warning message
data(shh)
Warning message:
In data(shh) : data set ‘shh’ not found
Any ideas is of great help:)
It's been a while since you asked this, but I was having the exact same problem with hyperlinks in documentation not appearing correctly, so for anyone who might be having a similar problem: Are you possibly viewing the development documentation? The links don't seem to work there. (You'll know this is the case if you see Using development documentation for your_function_name in your console output when you run ?your_function_name.)
The links should appear in the non-development documentation. To generate this you can try building and reloading your package, for instance by following the steps here: http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/man.html#man-workflow-2
I am attempting to automate the insertion of JPEG images into Powerpoint. I have a macro done for that already, except using R would be infinitely better for my purposes.
The package R2PPT should do this, I understand. However, I cannot use it. For example, when I try to use PPT.Open, I understand I can do it two different ways by calling method = "rcom" or method = "RDCOMClient". Using the latter, R will always crash, sending an error report to windows. Using the former, it tells me I need to install statconnDCOM , before giving the error:
Error in PPT.Open(x) : attempt to apply non-function.
I cannot install statconnDCOM freely, as I wouldn't call this work non-commercial. So if there isn't a way to get around this issue, are there at least some free alternatives to R2PPT so that I can save several hours of manual work with a simple R code? If there is a way for me to use R2PPT, that would be ideal.
Thanks!
Edit:
I'm using R version 2.15 and downloaded the most recent version of R2PPT. Powerpoint is 2007.
Do you have administrative privileges on this machine?
There is an issue with package RDCOMClient. It needs permissions to write file rdcom.err in the root of drive C:. If you don't have privileges to write to c:, there is a rather cumbersome workaround:
Close R
Create "c:\temp" folder if it doesn't exist.
Locate on your hard drive file rdcomclient.dll. It usually placed in \R\library\RDCOMClient\libs\i386\ and in \R\library\RDCOMClient\libs\x64\ (you need to patch file which corresponds your Windows version - 32 bit or 64 bit). It's recommended to make backup copy of this files before patching.
Open rdcomclient.dll in text editor (Notepad++, for example -http://notepad-plus-plus.org/)
Find in file string c:\rdcom.err - it occurs only once.
Go into overwrite mode (usually by pressing "Ins" key). It is very important that new path will have the same number of characters as original one. Type C:\temp\e.rr instead of c:\rdcom.err
Save the file.
Now all should work fine.
Arguably not an answer, but have you looked at using Sweave/knitr to render your presentations in LaTeX using something like Beamer? (As discussed on slide 17 here.)
Wouldn't help any with getting JPGs into a PowerPoint, but would certainly make putting R-output (numerical or graphical) into a presentation much easier!
Edit: if you want to use knitr (which I recommend), here's another reference.
I am looking for a text editor that support embedding scripts (Perl in my case) in the text you write.
I understand that something like it is possible through Emacs, but am not sure how and what.
The idea is to generate reports that contain the output of the embedded scripts, which are run while generating the report (if not already in previous versions of the report).
The Babel package in Emacs can do this. See the introductory tutorial here.
sweave does that in a limited way (R only).