In dgrtwo/snippr: Manage, share, and install RStudio snippets

library(knitr)
# eval is false so that we're not messing with the installer's snippets
opts_chunk$set(eval = FALSE)

You can share your RStudio snippets with others by publishing them as a GitHub repository or a Gist.

Install from GitHub

To share your snippets, create a GitHub repository with one or more .snippets file at the top level: see the dgrtwo/snippets repository for an example. (You can have other files or folders in the repository, such as a README.md, and they will be skipped).

Anyone can then install your snippets using the code:

library(snippr)
snippets_install_github("dgrtwo/snippets")

If you want to install only for one of the languages in the repo, you can use the language argument:

snippets_install_github("dgrtwo/snippets", language = "r")

# or

snippets_install_github("dgrtwo/snippets", language = "c_cpp")

Finally, you can choose to install only a single snippet:

snippets_install_github("dgrtwo/snippets", language = "r", name = "S3")

Installing from a GitHub Gist

You can also share one or more snippets as a one-file Gist, such as can be found here. To install that snippet, do:

snippets_install_gist("ecc6aec8d37af42cdd83", language = "r")

As of now Gist snippets must be a single file (and language), and the language should be specified manually.

Future Work

• Categories or tags for snippets
• Snippets installed from a package
• Functions to publish to a GitHub repository or Gist

dgrtwo/snippr documentation built on May 15, 2019, 7:29 a.m.