usedthese is a pair of functions to summarise package & function usage in Quarto documents consistent with knitr’s syntax highlighting:
used_here() adds a nicely-rendered summary table of
usage to a single document;
used_there() harvests and consolidates the tables
created above ready for site-wide analysis.
Each “little project” on the Quarto website quantumjitter.com
focuses on a data science technique or machine learning model to analyse
real-world data. At the foot of each of these is a quantified view of
the R packages and functions used in the associated code. This is
achieved by including used_here() in each Quarto
document.
used_there() scrapes all the tables created by
used_here() to enable a Favourite Things
article on how packages and functions are used across the website.
I personally find this approach makes it easier for me to check for consistency of usage, acknowledge the packages I most need to keep abreast of (or go deeper on), and spot opportunities for updates to the latest and greatest.
When the Tidyverse blog announced changes to dplyr
and purrr a
quick review of my Favourite Things
identified a number of opportunities to try out the exciting new
features. For example, dplyr introduced temporary grouping with the
.by argument for mutate and amigos. group_by()
and ungroup() had been used many times and most of these
occurrences could be replaced with the new more concise approach.
install.packages("usedthese")To get a bug fix, or to use a feature from the development version, you can install usedthese from GitHub.
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("cgoo4/usedthese")