Datasly R package

Author: Christos Stylianou

Overview

Datasly is a light-weight and powerful data visualization tool developed by ClinBAY, which can be downloaded for free. It can be used to view, filter, sort, query data tables in SAS™ (.sas7bdat, .xpt), R (.RData), CSV, Excel formats.

This R package gives ability to R users to open data frames, tibbles and 2D matrice within Datasly with a single R code line:

Installation

Note about Datasly software installation

The datasly software will be installed automatically by the R package when using it, if it is not yet installed. You can also install manually the Datasly free software from the ClinBAY website: https://clinbay.com/datasly. Once installed, the software binaries will be executed from R. Datasly is only intented to work on Microsoft Windows operating system.

RStudio users

Go to "Tools" and then "Install Packages" Choose "Install from Package archive file" Click "Browse" Select your package file (".zip" for Binary or ".tar.gz" for Source)

Rgui users

Type the following command in R Console: install.packages("C:/pathofsavedzipfolder/Datasly_0.2.0.zip") for Binary or install.packages("C:/pathofsavedzipfolder/Datasly_0.2.0.tar.gz") for Source

Install from GitHub

First, you need to install the devtools package. You can do this from CRAN. Invoke R and then type

install.packages("devtools")

Load the devtools package.

library(devtools)

Install from GitHub repository

install_github("ClinBAY/Datasly-R")

Usage

Use the Datasly function to open one or several data frames, tibbles and 2D matrice.

library(Datasly)
data(mtcars)
data(BOD)
Datasly(mtcars,BOD)

How it works?

When executing the Datasly function to open data from R, the data is saved into a temporary folder as a .RData file, and Datasly is executed in batch mode to open it.

Main changes history

v0.1.0 (7-Sep-2020)

• First version of the package

v0.2.0 (25-Jan-2021)

• Bug fixes and improved setup functionality

v1.0.1 (1-Feb-2021)

• Uses the new native support from Datasly for RData files.
• Allows the viewing of tibble and matrices in addition to the already available data.frames of the previous version
• Enables to open multiple data from memory into a single Datasly session with only one call

Contact

Feel free to contact us at github@clinbay.com or via the Discussion GitHub panel!

ClinBAY is a Biometrics CRO expert in Statistics.