Organizr: Tidy up your projects for good!

Organizr provides opinionated code-shortcuts to quickly create R scripts, as well as minimal Quarto and Rmarkdown documents with a consistent naming scheme.

Organizr offers a count-based prefix...

R/
  001_first-script.R
  002_another-script.R
  003_and-so-on.R

... and a date-based prefix.

R/
  2022-09-24_first-script.R
  2022-09-26_another-script.R
  2022-09-26_and-so-on.R

Installation

You can install the development version of organizr like so:

# install.packages("devtools") # if you do not have devtools installed
devtools::install_github("jobrachem/organizr")

Some details

Organizr offers the four following functions:

• r() creates an R script with a timestamp-comment in project_path/R.
• py() creates a Python script with a timestamp-comment in project_path/py.
• qmd() creates a minimal Quarto document in project_path/qmd.
• rmd() creates a minimal Rmarkdown document in project_path/rmd.

Organizr is an opinionated package. It may very well be that it does not fit your personal workflow, and that's ok.

Setup

The best user experience arises, if you load organizr in the .Rprofile of your current project. To do so, you can use the following line to open your project's .Rprofile:

# install.packages("usethis")
usethis::edit_r_profile(scope = "project")

Then place the following code inside the .Rprofile:

if (interactive()) {
  suppressMessages(require(organizr))
}

This will always load up the library organizr in interactive R sessions. Now, you will always be able to create consistently named new R scripts via quick and simple function calls like

r("my-script")

If this is the first R file in your project, this function call will create the file 001_my-script.R in the directory project_path/R.

Options

You can set some global options via

options("option_name" = "option_value")

If you want to use options, it often makes sense to also place them directly in the .Rprofile, so that your favourite options are automatically activated.

Example:

With this function call, you set the default prefix used by organizr to "date":

options("organizr.prefix_by" = "date")

General options:

Option	Meaning
organizr.prefix_delim	Which character to insert as a separator between the prefix and the actual file name. The default is "_"
organizr.prefix_by	Can be used to override the default of "count". Can be "count" or "date".
organizr.prefix_date_format	Date format for date prefixes. Can be any format string accepted by strftime. Default is "%Y-%m-%d".

Options for R scripts:

Option	Meaning
organizr.r.init_with_date	Can be set to FALSE to turn off the inclusion of the timestamp comment at the top of the script.
organizr.r.date_format	Date format for R and Python script timestamp comment. Can be any format string accepted by strftime. Default is "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M".
organizr.r.directory	The directory in which the scripts should be placed (relative to the project directory)

Options for Python scripts:

Option	Meaning
organizr.py.init_with_date	Can be set to FALSE to turn off the inclusion of the timestamp comment at the top of the script.
organizr.py.date_format	Date format for R and Python script timestamp comment. Can be any format string accepted by strftime. Default is "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M".
organizr.py.directory	The directory in which the scripts should be placed (relative to the project directory)

Other options:

Option	Meaning
organizr.rmd.directory	The directory in which .Rmd files should be placed (relative to the project directory)
organizr.qmd.directory	The directory in which .qmd files should be placed (relative to the project directory)