I had thought most folks likely knew this already, but if you are a user of RStudio dailies (this may apply to regular RStudio, but I only use the dailies) and are missing ligatures in the editor (for some fonts), the “fix” is pretty simple (some misguided folks think ligatures are daft). RStudio, like VS… Continue reading
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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 Silicon. I like to install the dailies, well, daily!; and, of late, RStudio and Quarto are joined at the hip. As a result, I regularly found myself having to manually update Quarto CLI right after updating RStudio, so I made… Continue reading
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 self. Having said, that, some apps do make OK use of it, with Fantastical and Omnigraffle being… Continue reading
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 requires an Alfred license which is reasonably cheap). When you add it to Alfred you must edit… Continue reading
Get by with a little (R) help from your friends (at GitHub)
@JennyBryan posted her [slides from the 2015 R Summit](https://github.com/jennybc/2015-06-28_r-summit-talk) 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 emulation. One thing she has mentioned a few times—and included in her R Summit talk—is the idea… Continue reading
New R Package: metricsgraphics
Mozilla released the [MetricsGraphics.js library](http://metricsgraphicsjs.org/) back in November of 2014 ([gh repo](https://github.com/mozilla/metrics-graphics)) 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 types as well (though said support is far from comprehensive). I had been pondering building an R package… Continue reading
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](http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home) when I need to do work at a shell. The fine folks at RStudio provide a handy `Shell`… menu item off the `Tools`… Continue reading
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” RStudio Server client outweighs the utility of my favorite browser. This is where Fluid (@FluidApp by… Continue reading