borekb

How to link to headings in GitHub issues and pull requests

If you have an issue comment / PR description on GitHub, it doesn't automatically get anchors / IDs that you could link to:

What I like to do is to add a visible # character like this:

djhocking

one <- seq(1:10)
two <- rnorm(10)
three <- runif(10, 1, 2)
four <- -10:-1

df <- data.frame(one, two, three)
df2 <- data.frame(one, two, three, four)

str(df)

jennybc

There are packages for this now!

2017-08-03: Since I wrote this in 2014, the universe, specifically Kirill Müller (https://github.com/krlmlr), has provided better solutions to this problem. I now recommend that you use one of these two packages:

• rprojroot: This is the main package with functions to help you express paths in a way that will "just work" when developing interactively in an RStudio Project and when you render your file.
• here: A lightweight wrapper around rprojroot that anticipates the most likely scenario: you want to write paths relative to the top-level directory, defined as an RStudio project or Git repo. TRY THIS FIRST.

I love these packages so much I wrote an ode to here.

I use these packages now instead of what I describe below. I'll leave this gist up for historical interest. 😆

iamatypeofwalrus

What

Roll your own iPython Notebook server with Amazon Web Services (EC2) using their Free Tier.

What are we using? What do you need?

• An active AWS account. First time sign-ups are eligible for the free tier for a year
• One Micro Tier EC2 Instance
• With AWS we will use the stock Ubuntu Server AMI and customize it.
• Anaconda for Python.
• Coffee/Beer/Time

mages

## The following example demonstrates
## how a serach and replace string task 
## can be peformed with R across several files

## Create two text files with content 
filenames <- c( tempfile(), tempfile() )
for( f in  filenames ){
 cat("We wish you a Merry Christmas!\n\nBest regards\n", file=f)
}