clearenvironment: Clear environment, clear console, set work directory and load...

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Clear environment, clear console, set work directory and load files

Description

Shorthand to quickly clear console, clear environment, set working directory, load files

Usage

clean(setwd = NULL, source = c(), load = c(), clearPkgs = FALSE)

clear(setwd = NULL, source = c(), load = c(), clearPkgs = FALSE)

Arguments

setwd	OPTIONAL. set working directory
source	OPTIONAL. source in file(s)
load	OPTIONAL. load in Rdata file(s)
clearPkgs	Clear previous loaded packages, TRUE or FALSE

Details

The purpose of this function is provide a one-line code to clear the console, clear the environment, set working directory to a specified path, source in various files into the current file, and load RData files into the current environment. The first process in the sequence of events is to clear the environment. Then the working directory is set, prior to inclusion of various files and RData. With the directory being set first, the path to the sourced in or RData files will not need to be appended to the file name. See examples.

Value

cleared environment and set directory

Examples

if(interactive()){
#simply clear environment, clear console and devices
quickcode::clean()

#clear combined with additional arguments
quickcode::clean(
  clearPkgs = FALSE
) #also clear all previously loaded packages if set to true

quickcode::clean(
  setwd = "/home/"
) #clear env and also set working directory


quickcode::clean(
  source = c("/home/file1.R","file2")
) #clear environment and source two files into current document


quickcode::clean(
  setwd = "/home/",
  source = c("file1","file2")
) #clear environment, set working directory and source 2 files into environment


quickcode::clean(
  setwd = "/home/",
  source="file1.R",
  load="obi.RData"
) #clear environment, set working directory, source files and load RData
}

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