Category: RStudio
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Ligatures In RStudio Dailies
Learn how to enable ligatures in RStudio Dailies using CSS and themes. Enhance your coding experience with granular control over ligatures for a more visually appealing and readable code.
A zsh Helper Script For Updating macOS RStudio Daily Electron + Quarto CLI Installs
RStudio's macOS Electron build is coming along quite nicely and is blazing fast on Apple…
Adding macOS Touch Bar Support to RStudio
Modern MacBook Pros have a fairly useless ( c'mon, admit it! ) "Touch Bar" that did little more than cause severe ire in the developer community after turning a full-fledged, tactile Escape key into a hollow version if its former…
Pipes (%>%) Everywhere
An R user asked a question regarding whether it's possible to have the RStudio pipe ( %>% ) shortcut ( Cmd-Shift-M ) available in other macOS applications. If you're using Alfred then you can use this workflow for said task (IIRC this…
Get by with a little (R) help from your friends (at GitHub)
@JennyBryan posted her slides from the 2015 R Summit and they are a must-read for instructors and even general stats/R-folk. She's one of the foremost experts in R+GitHub and her personal and class workflows provide solid patterns worth…
New R Package: metricsgraphics
Mozilla released the MetricsGraphics.js library back in November of 2014 (gh repo) and was greeted with great fanfare. It's primary focus is on crisp, clean layouts for interactive time-series data, but they have support for other chart…
Change The Default "Shell..." Action In RStudio for OS X
RStudio is my R development environment of choice and I work primarily on/in Mac OS X. While it's great that Apple provides a built-in Terminal application, I prefer to use iTerm 2 when I need to do work at a shell. The fine folks at…
Use Fluid On MacOS To Build Per-RStudio Server "Dedicated" Clients
I'm jumping around analytics environments these days and have to leave the comfort of my Mac's RStudio Desktop application to use various RStudio Server instances via browser. While I prefer to use Chrome, the need to have a "dedicated"…