baRcodeR generates labels for more repeatable workflows with biological samples
You can install the released version of baRcodeR from CRAN with:
install.packages("baRcodeR")
And the development version from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropensci/baRcodeR", build_vignettes = T)
# for windows users to build vignettes
# install_github("ropensci/baRcodeR", build_opts = c("--no-resave-data", "--no-manual"), build_vignettes = TRUE)
NOTE: Restarting RStudio is necessary for the addin for baRcodeR to appear.
Text identifiers can be created in a sequential or hierarchical pattern.
library(baRcodeR)
## Loading required package: qrcode
example_labels <- uniqID_maker(user = FALSE, string = "Example", level = 1:80)
head(example_labels)
## label ind_string ind_number
## 1 Example001 Example 001
## 2 Example002 Example 002
## 3 Example003 Example 003
## 4 Example004 Example 004
## 5 Example005 Example 005
## 6 Example006 Example 006
Then the text identifiers can be printed out with a laser printer on sticker sheets.
pdf_file_name <- tempfile()
create_PDF(Labels = example_labels, name = pdf_file_name)
Th particular layout above defaults to ULINE 1.75” * 0.5” labels but
other layouts can be specified through parameters in the
custom_create_PDF
function.
baRcodeR
is a R package for generating unique identifier strings and
printable 2D (QR) barcodes, with the aim of improving repeatability of
labelling, tracking and curating data from biological samples.
Specifically, users can:
Creating unique, scannable barcodes generally involves two steps:
uniqID_maker()
or
uniqID_hier_maker()
create_PDF()
If you already have ID codes saved in a CSV file, the csv can be read
into a data.frame()
in R. The label
column, if it exists will be
used as input to generate barcodes. Otherwise, the first column in the
data frame will be used.
NOTE: When printing from pdf, ensure that ‘anti-aliasing’ or ‘smoothing’ options are turned OFF, and that you are not using ‘fit to page’ or similar options that will re-scale the output.
A 2-page, quick-reference guide is available via Figshare
Please load the vignette “Use Addin”.
library(baRcodeR)
vignette("use-addin")
Please load the vignette “Using-baRcodeR” for console use.
vignette("Using-baRcodeR")
Please note that the ‘baRcodeR’ project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
Please document issues with a description, a minimal reproducible
example, and the sessionInfo()
.
sessionInfo()
## R version 4.1.3 (2022-03-10)
## Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
## Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 22000)
##
## Matrix products: default
##
## locale:
## [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
## [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
## [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
##
## attached base packages:
## [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
##
## other attached packages:
## [1] baRcodeR_0.1.7 qrcode_0.1.4
##
## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
## [1] png_0.1-7 assertthat_0.2.1 digest_0.6.29 R.methodsS3_1.8.1
## [5] magrittr_2.0.2 evaluate_0.15 highr_0.9 rlang_1.0.2
## [9] stringi_1.7.6 cli_3.2.0 rstudioapi_0.13 R.oo_1.24.0
## [13] R.utils_2.11.0 rmarkdown_2.13 tools_4.1.3 stringr_1.4.0
## [17] xfun_0.30 yaml_2.3.5 fastmap_1.1.0 compiler_4.1.3
## [21] htmltools_0.5.2 knitr_1.38
zintris an R interface to the C zint library. Use zintr if you want to create single barcode images. zintr does not include functions for (i) automating the creation of biologically-relevant, unique ID codes or (ii) customizable layouts for printing multiple barcodes.
zint is a C library that generates a variety of different barcodes. Just like zintr, zint produces single barcode images.
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