[R] Best settings for RStudio video recording?

[Ivan Calandra]

Thank you again Duncan for the details.

Best,
Ivan

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Dr. Ivan Calandra
TraCEr, laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments
MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and
Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution
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On 17/08/2020 20:50, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 17/08/2020 9:20 a.m., Ivan Calandra wrote:
>> I don't want to relight the fire, but I was wondering about that
>> statement from John C Frain:
>> "If you use RStudio and do not install any of the RStudio packages".
>>
>> I guess you mean that some packages are bundled with RStudio. I had
>> never noticed any optional packages during the installation of
>> RStudio... Is there a way to identify (and delete, if wished) these
>> packages?
>> Or have I misunderstood?
>
> When you are running RStudio, your search list will include
> "tools:rstudio".  It's not exactly a package, it's an environment
> containing functions used by the RStudio front end.  You can delete it
> and R will still work fine, but I'd expect some parts of the GUI to
> stop working.
>
> Some RStudio actions (e.g. clicking the "knit" button) will prompt you
> to install packages if they are not found.  I don't think any of them
> are "bundled" with RStudio, but I might be wrong about that.
>
> RStudio definitely installs Pandoc and maybe some other packages.
> (These aren't R packages, they are packages in a more general sense.)
> Certainly you should be able to delete Pandoc if you have permissions
> to install it; that may break RMarkdown if you don't have another copy
> somewhere.)
>
> To identify what R packages got installed, just run
> "installed.packages()" before and after installing RStudio, and look
> for differences.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Ivan
>>
>> -- 
>> Dr. Ivan Calandra
>> TraCEr, laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments
>> MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and
>> Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution
>> Schloss Monrepos
>> 56567 Neuwied, Germany
>> +49 (0) 2631 9772-243
>> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra
>>
>> On 16/08/2020 20:20, John C Frain wrote:
>>> On Sun 16 Aug 2020 at 06:32, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> a) Read about it yourself. It is a legal definition.
>>>>
>>>> b) Don't "correct" me with misinformation you are clearly inventing.
>>>> RStudio the software does not "introduce people to a modified
>>>> version of
>>>> R." Each user has to opt in to that "modified" experience by
>>>> explicitly
>>>> installing each of the the many CRAN packages that various
>>>> employees of
>>>> RStudio have created and all of which can (to my knowledge) be used
>>>> without
>>>> installing the RStudio IDE at all. Yes, a bunch of them can be
>>>> grabbed at
>>>> once by installing the tidyverse package, but that is also a choice
>>>> made by
>>>> users and by instructors struggling to deal with students who have
>>>> a hard
>>>> time with Excel much less functional programming. But RStudio is an
>>>> R IDE.
>>>>
>>>> There are a lot of packages sponsored by RStudio that I find
>>>> redundant and
>>>> slow, but portraying the RStudio company or the IDE as inherently
>>>> "not R"
>>>> just because newbies like the IDE and the packages they sponsor,
>>>> and who
>>>> end up confusing R with RStudio even though they have to install
>>>> both, is
>>>> small-minded and biased
>>>
>>> To clarify:  If you use RStudio and do not install any of the RStudio
>>> packages, R in RStudio is the same R as if you were running it from the
>>> command line.  I would think that many users find command completion,
>>> access to help files, project management Etc. useful. Nobody is asking
>>> anyone to install the RStudio packages.  I do sometimes but not
>>> always and
>>> have found them useful. Jeff is 100% correct.
>>>
>>>
>>>>   On August 15, 2020 9:10:34 PM PDT, Abby Spurdle
>>>> <spurdle.a using gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:11 PM Jeff Newmiller
>>>>> <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>>>>>>   It is a public benefit corporation
>>>>> Seriously?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:11 PM Jeff Newmiller
>>>>> <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>>>>>>   used to introduce people to R
>>>>> Correction, it introduces people to a modified version of R.
>>>> -- 
>>>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>>>>
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