README.md

In papplegate/mise: Clears the Workspace (Mise en Place)

mise: R package for clearing the workspace (mise en place)

Description

Clears the workspace. Useful for the beginnings of R scripts, to avoid potential problems with accidentally using information from variables or functions from previous script evaluations, too many figure windows open at the same time, packages that you don't need any more, or a cluttered console.

Installation

Update, 30 June 2016: mise v0.1.0 is now available from CRAN! You can install it from the command line in R using

install.packages("mise")

Any changes to mise will be pushed to this Github repository before the updated package is submitted to CRAN. To install the Github version of mise from within R,

install.packages("devtools")
library("devtools")
install_github("papplegate/mise")

Commands

clear_console Clear the Console clear_figs Clear All Figures clear_funs Clear All Functions clear_pkgs Clear All Packages clear_vars Clear All Variables mise Clear the Workspace (Mise en Place)

Usage

mise(vars = TRUE, funs = TRUE, figs = TRUE, console = TRUE, pkgs = FALSE, where = parent.frame(1))

Arguments

vars clear all variables in the parent environment? funs clear all functions in the parent environment? figs close all figure windows? console clear the console? pkgs clear all non-base packages? Defaults to FALSE. where which environment to delete variables and functions from; defaults to the calling environment

Details

Based on StackOverflow contributions from users David Robinson, shadow, Gavin Simpson, Ramnath, Joshua Ulrich, E Luxo So, Josh O'Brien, and krlmlr; see

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29758000/function-to-remove-all-variables http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8305754/remove-all-variables-except-functions http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19449066/command-to-close-plots-in-r http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7505547/detach-all-packages-while-working-in-r http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12389158/check-if-r-is-running-in-rstudio

Examples

library(mise)
x <- seq(1, 10, by = 1)
y <- x+ rnorm(10, mean = 0, sd = 1)
plot(x, y)
ls()
# change figs to TRUE to also clear the figure
mise(figs = FALSE)
ls()

papplegate/mise documentation built on May 24, 2019, 6:15 p.m.