ProjectTemplate Google Group

Re: RStudio Project and Project Template: can they co-exist?

johnmyleswh...@gmail.com (John Myles White) — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:22:37 UT

I had meant that RStudio should be centered in the project directory, not the reports sub-directory. But if that breaks the knitr steps, I suppose you have to transition to the reports directory at the end.

I don't use RStudio enough to really say what's right. Maybe someone else?

-- John

Re: RStudio Project and Project Template: can they co-exist?

opy...@gmail.com (Juan Uys) — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 07:50:16 UT

When you say "existing directory", do you mean the "reports" subdirectory
in the ProjectTemplate-generated structure, or did you mean for RStudio to
be used not just for the final report? I need to tell RStudio that
"reports" is the working directory, otherwise knitr can't find my main .Rmd
file.

Re: Unable to load project(): You are missing a configuration file: config.global.dcf

johnmyleswh...@gmail.com (John Myles White) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:13:43 UT

Hi Alpha,

Can you give some more information? In particular, what does the following code output?

file.path("config", "global.dcf"))

I am worried that a call to file.path() is missing or broken on your system, because the relevant file isn't config.global.dcf, but rather config/global.dcf or config\global.dcf

Re: Unable to load project(): You are missing a configuration file: config.global.dcf

alfadiodia...@gmail.com (Alpha Diallo) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:01:45 UT

Still not working for me. i tried the absolute path thing to no avail.

Re: Error message

johnmyleswh...@gmail.com (John Myles White) — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:56:24 UT

I think the problem is that you're in the "src" directory, whereas you should be in "~/DataClass/letters".

-- John

Error message

colkurtzs...@gmail.com (Randy B.) — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:50:45 UT

I was working thru the ProjectTemplate tutorial on the ProjectTemplate website
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and when I run the plotting code, I keep getting this:
cannot open file 'graphs/plot1.pdf'> > plot2 <- ggplot(second.letter.counts, aes(x = V1)) + geom_density()> ggsave(file.path('graphs', 'plot2.pdf'))Saving 8.38 x 4.67 in imageError in grDevices::pdf(..., version = version) :

Re: Loading csv data in a .txt file on the internet

eoinbayshar...@mac.com (Epee Sharkey) — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:06:31 UT

Many thanks John,
indeed I had just experimented (like 10 mins ago) to find I can make a file
called getonlineequakedata.R in ~/data with the following lines :
*
to read the data as needed.
I appreciate your point about making a crumb-trail version. I guess it is
feasible to adapt my 2-liner so it first downloads the file saving it with

Re: Loading csv data in a .txt file on the internet

johnmyleswh...@gmail.com (John Myles White) — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:50:37 UT

Hi Epee,

Glad you're enjoying ProjectTemplate.

I think you're hitting up against one of the subjective qualities of ProjectTemplate: it gains ease of use by discouraging configuration and encouraging standardization of practices. If a file is a CSV file, it should advertise itself as such.

In this case, I think the best solution is to write a script that grabs the data you're analyzing and then store that data permanently inside of the "data" folder with timestamp information added to the filenames. This makes your analysis much more reproducible. I personally would not be happy with an analysis program that changed results every time I ran it because it downloaded a different data set. I think keeping a breadcrumb trail of previous data sets is a good thing.

Loading csv data in a .txt file on the internet

eoinbayshar...@mac.com (Epee Sharkey) — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:45:53 UT

Hi,
as a brief pre-amble : wanted to say thanks to johnmyleswhite and anyone
else involved in putting this really useful tool together. I discovered it
yesterday via Coursera class on Data Analysis which majors on the use of R.
PT looks like it will help save me from myself when I am down in the

Re: install.packages("ProjectTemplate") fails on R 2.15.1

robert.lewkov...@gmail.com (Robert Lewkovich) — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:52:16 UT

I tried it from my home machine and ProjectTemplats successfully installed
in RStudio using R-2.15.2. So all's well ...thanks

Re: install.packages("ProjectTemplate") fails on R 2.15.1

johnmyleswh...@gmail.com (John Myles White) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:23:56 UT

Please do. I've had trouble building ProjectTemplate under newer versions of R because of changes to the way that R treats empty directories inside of packages. So this might not work, but I would hope that it does.

-- John

Re: install.packages("ProjectTemplate") fails on R 2.15.1

robert.lewkov...@gmail.com (Robert Lewkovich) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:19:08 UT

Regarding "In open.connection(con, "r") : unable to resolve '
cran.r-project.org'"
Maybe this is a proxy issue as I'm at work. Will try when at home and see
if the results are the same.

Re: install.packages("ProjectTemplate") fails on R 2.15.1

robert.lewkov...@gmail.com (Robert Lewkovich) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:13:42 UT

Also, The CRAN site says about ProjectTemplate:
Version: 0.4-2 Depends: R (≥ 2.7)

install.packages("ProjectTemplate") fails on R 2.15.1

robert.lewkov...@gmail.com (Robert Lewkovich) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:59:10 UT

Am using R 2.15.1. This also happens using R Studio. Here's what I did and
the results:
Installing package(s) into ‘D:/Users/XYZ/Documents/R/win- library/2.15’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Warning: unable to access index for repository

Re: whitespace in dataframe

johnmyleswh...@gmail.com (John Myles White) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:17:47 UT

I would add a function like this to the munging steps. You could rewrite the contents of munge/01-A.R to call a function replaces whitespaces with NA's in any data set that you'd like.

I don't know of a function to do this in R off the top of my head, but think it shouldn't be too hard to write.