Organizr: Tidy up your projects for good!

Organizr provides opinionated code-shortcuts to quickly create R scripts, as well as minimal Quarto and Rmarkdown documents with a consistent naming scheme.

Organizr offers a count-based prefix…

R/
  001_first-script.R
  002_another-script.R
  003_and-so-on.R

… and a date-based prefix.

R/
  2022-09-24_first-script.R
  2022-09-26_another-script.R
  2022-09-26_and-so-on.R

Installation

You can install the development version of organizr like so:

# install.packages("devtools") # if you do not have devtools installed
devtools::install_github("jobrachem/organizr")

Some details

Organizr offers the four following functions:

r() creates an R script with a timestamp in project_path/R.
py() creates a Python script with a timestamp in project_path/py.
qmd() creates a minimal Quarto document in project_path/qmd.
rmd() creates a minimal Quarto document in project_path/rmd.

Organizr is an opinionated packaged. It may very well be that it does not fit your personal workflow, and that’s ok.

Setup

The best user experience arises, if you load organizr in the .Rprofile of your current project. To do so, you can use the following line to open your project’s .Rprofile:

# install.packages("usethis")
usethis::edit_r_profile(scope = "project")

Then place the following code inside the .Rprofile:

if (interactive()) {
  suppressMessages(require(organizr))
}

This will always load up the library organizr in interactive R sessions. Now, you will always be able to create consistently named new R scripts via quick and simple function calls like

r("my-script")

If this is the first R file in your project, this function call will create the file 001_my-script.R in the directory project_path/R.

Options

You can set some global options via

options("option_name" = "option_value")

If you want to use options, it often makes sense to also place them directly in the .Rprofile file.

Example:

With this function call, you set the default prefix used by organizr to “date”:

options("organizr.prefix_by" = "date")

General options:

Option	Meaning
`organizr.prefix_delim`	Which character to insert as a separator between the prefix and the actual file name. The default is `"_"`
`organizr.prefix_by`	Can be used to override the function default of `"count"`. Can be `"count"` or `"date"`.
`organizr.prefix_date_format`	Date format for date prefixes. Can be any format string accepted by `strftime`. Default is `"%Y-%m-%d"`.

Options for R scripts:

Option	Meaning
`organizr.r.init_with_date`	Can be set to `FALSE` to turn off the inclusion of the timestamp comment at the top of the script.
`organizr.r.date_format`	Date format for R and Python script timestamp comment. Can be any format string accepted by `strftime`. Default is `"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"`.
`organizr.r.directory`	The directory in which the scripts should be place (relative to the project directory)

Options for Python scripts:

Option	Meaning
`organizr.py.init_with_date`	Can be set to `FALSE` to turn off the inclusion of the timestamp comment at the top of the script.
`organizr.py.date_format`	Date format for R and Python script timestamp comment. Can be any format string accepted by `strftime`. Default is `"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"`.
`organizr.py.directory`	The directory in which the scripts should be place (relative to the project directory)

Other options:

Option	Meaning
`organizr.rmd.directory`	The directory in which `.Rmd` files should be place (relative to the project directory)
`organizr.qmd.directory`	The directory in which `.qmd` files should be place (relative to the project directory)