1 Introduction

Tidy script

Few useful tips how to handle your scripts tidy:

  1. use projects
  • create directories data, results, maps, backup etc.
  1. libraries
  • list all the libraries you need at the beginning of the script
library(tidyverse)
library(readxl)
  1. remarks

  • ctrl + shift + C will change the text to non-active (marked with hash tags #)

  • add notes to your scripts, you will be grateful later

  1. separate scripts or sections

  • ctrl + shift + R insert named section

  • use 4x#

  • Alt + O fold all

  • Shift + Alt + O unfold all

  1. names of variables

  • short and easy to handle, without spaces, strange symbols

  • rename strange names one by one

  • %>% rename (ReleveNr = "Releve number")

  • or change all difficult patterns at once

  • RegEx Regular expression

env <- env %>%
   rename_all(~ str_replace_all(., c(
    "\\." = "",     #remove dots in the variable names
    "\\m²" = "m2",
    "\\°" = "deg",
    "\\%" = "perc", # remove symbol % and change it to perc
    "\\(" = "",
    "\\)" = "",
    "\\/" = "",
    "\\?" = "",
    "\\s", "."))) #remove spaces
  1. piping

  • pipe binds individual steps into a sequence

  • ctrl+shift+M inserts a pipe %>% or |>

extra reading

https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2017/12/workflow-vs-script/

https://davidzeleny.net/wiki/doku.php/recol:clean_and_tidy_script