README.md
In t-morrison/viewDat: An RStudio add-in keyboard shortcut to quickly view data

viewDat

Use this keyboard shortcut to view a data.frame or data.table in RStudio's built-in data viewer.

The shortcut wraps all the text on your current line in View() and executes it, which will result in RStudio opening a data viewer tab with your data.

The shortcut will work as long as the complete line returns a data.frame/data.table/tibble when executed normally. It will not work if there is a comment at the end of the line, or for piped functions that wrap multiple lines.

To use, you must bind the function to a keyboard shortcut in RStudio by going to Tools -> Modify Keyboard Shortcuts... and finding the entry "View data on cursor line". I have bound it to Ctrl + ,.

The shortcut will work when executed both from a .R file open in the editor or from the RStudio console. Because it wraps the whole line, the shortcut will work on the following lines:

iris

data.table(iris)[, mean(Sepal.Length), by=.(Species)][Species == 'setosa']

iris %>% filter(Species == "setosa")

I find this particularly useful with data.table queries, as they are almost always on one line.