Questions about the ‘box’ module system for the R programming language
‘box’ is an R package that provides a modern module system for the r programming language.
Questions tagged [r-box]
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R Function 'box::help()' Cannot Generate Help File: "Invalid Argument"
Motivation
My colleagues and I routinely create ad hoc scripts in R, to perform ETL on proprietary data and generate automated reports for clients. I am attempting to standardize our approach, for the sake of consistency, modularity, and…
Greg
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Loading data mask manually when using box
I have an R code that I'm changing to use R's box package.
But I noticed that a function I had no longer has the dataframes columns as variables in the environment, so when I do dplyr's filter I get object 'verified' not found.
What's the easiest…
Mojimi
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Call Project Scripts from Another Project
I'm building an RStudio project (Project 2) where I would like to access certain scripts that are contained within another already-built RStudio project (Project 1). Project 1 contains various scripts, some of which reference one another through…
kamiks
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How to seperate the one modules function across multiple .R files?
to organize the functions in my largest r-project, I am trying to migrate from a horribly flat folder structure to a nicely modularized hierarchical one using the box package. How can I keep on R-file per function in nested modules?
R
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pieuvre
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How can I reload a custom module using r-box
I start to use the R package box, but struggle during development of nested dependencies.
Setup
Usually I develop a first function helper.R:
# helper.R
helper <- function(i) {
return(paste("help", i))
}
Then a I use it in a wrapper:
#…
Daniel M Bader
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R, box: How to add to generic function print the message method print.message?
Suppose getwd() yields "C:/Users/Tom/Documents/Tom_Levers_Git_Repository".
In this repository, I have directory TomLeversRBox.
In this box, I have modules calculate_probability.R and print.message.R.
In the module calculate_probability.R, I have the…
Tom Lever
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R, box: How do I use an external package like stats?
Suppose getwd() yields "C:/Users/Tom/Documents/Tom_Levers_Git_Repository".
In this repository, I have directory TomLeversRBox.
In this box, I have module calculate_probability.R.
In this module, I have the following function.
#'…
Tom Lever
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How to use imported names from box modules inside parallel code?
Here is a minimal example showing the issue:
mod.r:
#' @export
run_sqrt <- function (x) {
sqrt(x)
}
mwe.r
box::use(
./mod[...],
parallel,
dp = doParallel,
foreach[foreach, `%dopar%`],
)
cl <-…
Ferroao
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using klmr box::use in an rmarkdown document
Can anyone give me an example to add libraries and local functions with the klmr::box package in a rmarkdown document?
I am aware of their use in Rhino´s framework, but I feel a bit confused where can I declare modules and libraries in a YAML +…
Captain Tyler
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Setting up a new {box} module with {roxygen2} comments
I'm new to both {box} and {roxygen2} and have never written a package - so please bear with me.
I've got a script that has a smallish function in it which I've verified works at my end. It's sited in a bespoke folder I've created, called R, inside…
C. W.
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Using {targets} and {box}
What would be the best way to use {targets} but writing all the functions using {box}?
The problems I am facing are mainly that it is verbose to "source" the functions in my module (box::use() instead of tar_source()) and any alteration in the code…
glhrm
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How to make conditionalPanel work with box with rhino
This conditional panel is not working:
File: app/view/submit.R
,div(
conditionalPanel(condition = "input.region_input == 2",
ns = ns,
uiOutput(ns("africaCountrySelect"))
) )
Context:…
Ferroao
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