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")