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R Development

Hridoy

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R language devlopment Toolkit
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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R Language Development Toolkit

Now Updated for R 3.4.1 release

This extension for Visual Studio Code adds snippets for R Language. More Snippets will be coming soon just release.

Use Extension

Contributors

Hridoy
Hridoy

See the CHANGELOG for the latest changes

Usage

Just type the trigger and hit the tab key. For example...

lm

Expands to...

### load lme4 for mixed models
library(lme4)

### random intercept and random slope model
modelName <- lmer(DV ~ fixedFactor1 +* fixedFactor2 + (1 + randomSlope|randomInt), data=df)
summary(modelName)

Type part of a snippet, press enter, and the snippet unfolds.

Main triggers



"plot": templates for plotting in base R
"edit": options useful for data cleansing and saving
"desc": descriptive statistics of data
"ttest": distinct types of t-test
"aov": distinct analysis of variance models
"lm": linear and logistic regression
"lmem": linear mixed effects models

Extra triggers


"subset": make subsets of a DF
"read": read/load/install data/packages into R
"save": save plots, dfs, tables, etc.
"tikz": template for creating R plots in LaTeX

Note All snippets have the following scopes:

source.r, text.html.markdown.knitr, text.tex.latex, text.html.markdown.rmarkdown

Alternatively, press Ctrl+Space (Windows, Linux) or Cmd+Space (OSX) to activate snippets from within the editor.

Installation

  1. Install Visual Studio Code 1.10.0 or higher
  2. Launch Code
  3. From the command palette Ctrl-Shift-P (Windows, Linux) or Cmd-Shift-P (OSX)
  4. Select Install Extension
  5. Choose the extension
  6. Reload Visual Studio Code
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