Buildr

Comfort way to run build scripts

Overview

Working with reproducible reports or any other similar projects often requires to run the script that "builds" the output file in a specified way. One can become tired from repeatedly switching to the build script and sourcing it. The buildr package does this one simple thing via "RStudio addin" – user can set up the keyboard shortcut and run the build script with one keystroke anywhere anytime. The second way is to pass buildr() (don't forget the parentheses!) command to console which does the same thing. Both ways source the build.R (case insensitive) file present in the current working directory.

Installation

The easiest way to get buildr is to install it from CRAN:

install.packages("buildr")

Or you can get the newest development version from GitHub:

if (!require(remotes)) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("netique/buildr")

Version

Current version available on CRAN is 0.0.4. The newest development version available on GitHub is 0.0.4.

Usage

It's very easy to use buildr:

library(buildr)
buildr()

However, much more feasible is to use RStudio's addins and create keyboard shorcut (Tools > Modify Keyboard Shorcuts... > here search for "Buildr"):

License

This program is free software and you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the GNU GPL 3.