CRAN Recipes: DPLYR, Stringr, Lubridate, and RegEx in R

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W. YarberryCRAN Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6876-6_20

20. Shortcuts and Miscellaneous

William Yarberry¹  

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Kingwood, TX, USA

 

20.1 RStudio

You can certainly use notepad or base R to write your scripts, in the same sense as a dog could walk on his hind legs to get places. It works but not well. RStudio is built for the purpose of efficient, effective, and beginner-friendly script coding.

Some simple shortcuts:

• Ctrl-Shift-R creates a section label, which is nothing more than a consistently formatted comment. Unless you enter a large number of words, the length of the comment is always the same. If you use it consistently in your code, it serves as ...