Expert R users, what's in your .Rprofile? [closed]

Answer 1

I've got this, more dynamic trick to use full terminal width, which tries to read from the COLUMNS environment variable (on Linux):

tryCatch(
  {options(
      width = as.integer(Sys.getenv("COLUMNS")))},
  error = function(err) {
    write("Can't get your terminal width. Put ``export COLUMNS'' in your \
           .bashrc. Or something. Setting width to 120 chars",
           stderr());
    options(width=120)}
)

This way R will use the full width even as you resize your terminal window.

Answer 2

Mine is not too fancy:

# So the mac gui can find latex
Sys.setenv("PATH" = paste(Sys.getenv("PATH"),"/usr/texbin",sep=":"))

#Use last(x) instead of x[length(x)], works on matrices too
last <- function(x) { tail(x, n = 1) }

#For tikzDevice caching 
options( tikzMetricsDictionary='/Users/cameron/.tikzMetricsDictionary' )

Answer 3

Here's mine. I always use the main cran repository, and have code to make it easy to source in-development package code.

.First <- function() {
    library(graphics)
    options("repos" = c(CRAN = "http://cran.r-project.org/"))
    options("device" = "quartz")
}

packages <- list(
  "describedisplay" = "~/ggobi/describedisplay",
  "linval" = "~/ggobi/linval", 

  "ggplot2" =  "~/documents/ggplot/ggplot",
  "qtpaint" =  "~/documents/cranvas/qtpaint", 
  "tourr" =    "~/documents/tour/tourr", 
  "tourrgui" = "~/documents/tour/tourr-gui", 
  "prodplot" = "~/documents/categorical-grammar"
)

l <- function(pkg) {
  pkg <- tolower(deparse(substitute(pkg)))
  if (is.null(packages[[pkg]])) {
    path <- file.path("~/documents", pkg, pkg)
  } else {
    path <- packages[pkg]
  }

  source(file.path(path, "load.r"))  
}

test <- function(path) {
  path <- deparse(substitute(path))
  source(file.path("~/documents", path, path, "test.r"))  
}

Answer 4

Here's mine, including some of the mentioned ideas.

Two things you might want to look at:

• .set.width() / w() update your print width to the one of the terminal. Unfortunately I did not find a way to do this automatically on terminal resize - R documentation mentions this is done by some R interpreters.
• history is saved every time together with a timestamp and the working directory

.

.set.width <- function() {
  cols <- as.integer(Sys.getenv("COLUMNS"))
  if (is.na(cols) || cols > 10000 || cols < 10)
    options(width=100)
  options(width=cols)
}

.First <- function() {
  options(digits.secs=3)              # show sub-second time stamps
  options(max.print=1000)             # do not print more than 1000 lines
  options("report" = c(CRAN="http://cran.at.r-project.org"))
  options(prompt="R> ", digits=4, show.signif.stars=FALSE)
}

# aliases
w <- .set.width

.Last <- function() {
  if (!any(commandArgs()=='--no-readline') && interactive()){
    timestamp(,prefix=paste("##------ [",getwd(),"] ",sep=""))
    try(savehistory("~/.Rhistory"))
   }
}

Answer 5

Here's mine. Nothing too innovative. Thoughts on why particular choices:

• I went with setting a default for stringsAsFactors because I find it extremely draining to pass it as an argument each time I read a CSV in. That said, it has already caused me some minor vexation when using code written on my usual computer on a computer which did not have my .Rprofile. I'm keeping it, though, as the troubles it has caused pale in comparison to the troubles not having it set everyday used to cause.
• If you don't load the utils package before options(error=recover), it cannot find recover when placed inside an interactive() block.
• I used .db for my dropbox setting rather than options(dropbox=...) because I use it all the time inside file.path and it saves much typing. The leading . keeps it from appearing with ls().

Without further ado:

if(interactive()) {
    options(stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
    options(max.print=50)
    options(repos="http://cran.mirrors.hoobly.com")
}

.db <- "~/Dropbox"
# `=` <- function(...) stop("Assignment by = disabled, use <- instead")
options(BingMapsKey="blahblahblah") # Used by taRifx.geo::geocode()

.First <- function() {
    if(interactive()) {
        require(functional)
        require(taRifx)
        require(taRifx.geo)
        require(ggplot2)
        require(foreign)
        require(R.utils)
        require(stringr)
        require(reshape2)
        require(devtools)
        require(codetools)
        require(testthat)
        require(utils)
        options(error=recover)
    }
}

Answer 6

Here's a little snippet for use exporting tables to LaTeX. It changes all the column names to math mode for the many reports I write. The rest of my .Rprofile is pretty standard and mostly covered above.

# Puts $dollar signs in front and behind all column names col_{sub} -> $col_{sub}$

amscols<-function(x){
    colnames(x) <- paste("$", colnames(x), "$", sep = "")
    x
}