https://github.com/christophergandrud/repmis
Miscellaneous tools for reproducible research with R.
https://github.com/christophergandrud/repmis
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Miscellaneous tools for reproducible research with R.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/christophergandrud/repmis
- Owner: christophergandrud
- Created: 2013-01-31T02:37:43.000Z (about 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2016-02-07T06:59:07.000Z (about 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-08-13T07:14:18.001Z (8 months ago)
- Language: R
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- Size: 289 KB
- Stars: 24
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 9
- Open Issues: 4
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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repmis
===
Version 0.4.5
[](http://cran.r-project.org/package=repmis)
[](https://travis-ci.org/christophergandrud/repmis)
Miscellaneous tools for reproducible research
## Functions
**repmis** currently has the following functions:
### Functions for installing, loading, and citing R packages:
- `LoadandCite`: a function for installing and loading R packages. The command
also creates a [BibTeX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX) bibliography file
with package citations.
- `InstallOldPackages`: installs specific R package versions.
### Functions for loading data into R from the internet:
- `source_data`: loads plain-text formatted data (e.g. CSV, TSV) or RDATA stored
at a URL (both http and https) into R. **Note:** the command can download data
from almost any secure (`https`) URL. This includes data in Dropbox Public
folders and *published* Google Docs plain-text formatted data sets (see
[Google Docs support pages](http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37579)
for details. Note, currently *only the old Google Sheets supports publishing*
sheets to the Web as plain-text files.)
- `source_data`, and all of the data download commands in *repmis* find and
report [SHA-1 hashes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1) for each file it loads.
You can use a file's SHA-1 hash to make sure you are downloading the file and
version of the file you think you are downloading. Note: if you are using
`source_data` to download data from GitHub, `source_data`'s SHA-1 hash is *not
the same as* the Git commit's SHA-1 hash. (Thanks to Hadley Wickham's
[devtools](https://github.com/hadley/devtools) package for the code to make this
possible.)
- Data downloaded with `source_data` can be cached (so you don't have to
re-download it every time you run a script. To do this use the `cache` argument.
- `source_XlsxData`: downloads and loads a data set in Excel format. The
function relies on the
[xlsx](http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsx/index.html) package and can
take any arguments that `read.xlsx` can.
## Other
- `git_stamp`: function for get git stamp (commit and branch) for a repository.
Thanks to Måns Magnusson.
- `scan_https`: read a character text file from a secure (https) site into R as
a single object.
- `set_valid_wd`: sets valid working directory from vector of possible
directories. This is useful if you run the same script on multiple machines.
## Installation
The package is available for download from
[CRAN](http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/repmis/).
You can also download the most recent version using the
[devtools](https://github.com/hadley/devtools) command `install_github` to
install **repmis** in R. Here is the exact code for installing the current
version:
```{S}
devtools::install_github('christophergandrud/repmis')
```