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addinit

Addin for initializing new projects in RStudio

Overview

This addin provide a Shiny gadget to easily create directories and scripts from templates in your new RStudio project !

Installation :

# From Github
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("dreamRs/addinit")

To launch the addin, use the addin menu in RStudio.

Customization

You can customize a lot of options in addinit, for example the names of the directories to create or a default author for the scripts. For this just modify the parameters list below and set the option addinit in your .Rprofile.

my_custom_params <- list(
  author = NULL,
  project = list(
    folders = list(
      default = c("scripts", "datas", "funs", "inputs", "outputs", "logs"),
      selected = NULL
    ),
    packages = list(
      default = rownames(installed.packages()),
      selected = NULL
    ),
    config = TRUE,
    source_funs = FALSE
  ),
  application = list(
    folders = list(
      default = c("datas", "funs", "modules", "www"),
      selected = NULL
    ),
    packages = list(
      default = rownames(utils::installed.packages()),
      selected = NULL
    ),
    create_template = TRUE,
    template = "dashboard"
  )
)
options("addinit" = my_custom_params)

For examples, changing the author and the directories' names and select package shiny by default :

my_custom_params <- list(
  author = "Victor",
  project = list(
    folders = list(
      default = c("R", "inst", "man", "data-raw", "data", "tests"),
      selected = c("R", "man")
    ),
    packages = list(
      default = rownames(utils::installed.packages()),
      selected = "shiny"
    )
  )
)
options("addinit" = my_custom_params)

Full list of parameters :