README.md

In isteves/flashcards: Test Hebrew vocab

flashcards

The goal of flashcards is to bring some Hebrew into my daily R work. All these words are gathered on the job, so they tend to be related to data science / fraud / e-commerce / programming.

Installation

You can install the development version of flashcards from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("isteves/flashcards")

Example

The package comes with a single function:

library(flashcards)
test_vocab()

It prompts you for the definition of a vocab word and gives three choices to choose from. For example, like this:

What does מדבג mean?

1: to separate
2: indication
3: debug

Selection: <enter your selection>

To be prompted with a vocab word every time you restart R, use usethis::edit_r_profile() to open your .Rprofile file for editing and add the following line:

if(interactive()) {
  setHook("rstudio.sessionInit", function(...) {
    flashcards::test_vocab()
  })
}

The setHook command is needed because the utils::menu() function within test_vocab() interrupts the RStudio set-up processes. (Thanks to Kevin Ushey for the solution…more details on RStudio Community.)

Customizing the package

Want to test yourself on your own vocabulary? For the time being, the easiest way is the following:

1. Clone the repo
2. Replace data-raw/vocab.tsv with a tsv file of your choice. It should contain two columns with the following names: test (the word that is new to you) and reference (the definition)
3. Run the vocab.R script (edit if needed)
4. Run devtools::install() (or press “Install and Restart” in the Build pane in RStudio) to install the package locally

isteves/flashcards documentation built on March 3, 2020, 1:26 a.m.