repmis

Version 0.4.5

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 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
  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 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 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 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.

You can also download the most recent version using the
devtools command install_github to
install repmis in R. Here is the exact code for installing the current
version:

devtools::install_github('christophergandrud/repmis')