Use R Markdown to Write your "Rprofile".
customiser
customiser is an R Markdown output format that makes it easy for you to customise your R experience. It does this by handling the writing of your .Rprofile file. You, as a user, are able to gather and annotate the R code that you would like to run when your R session starts and customiser will send it to the appropriate place for R to read it at start-up.
Installation
You can install the released version of customiser from CRAN with:
install.packages("customiser")
And the development version from GitHub with:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("jameslairdsmith/customiser")
Getting started
Once you've downloaded the package, the best place to get started is in RStudio. The package comes with a template that you can open by going to: File > New File > R Markdown > From Template and then choose 'customiser'. The file will start something like this:
---
title: "My .Rprofile"
knit: customiser::customiser
---
This is a template file you can use to customise your R experience with
the customiser package. The code that you include here will be transferred to
your .Rprofile when you 'knit'.
Inspiration
If you want to learn more about customising your R experience, you can watch this webinar.
The following people have made their .Rprofile files public:
Other ideas:
- Athanasia Mo Mowinckel has written about how to customise R's startup messages.