aleksandeR

This package exists to make my personal convenience functions portable and easy to share.

Installation

You can install the development version of aleksandeR from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
# devtools::install_github("aleksanderbl29/aleksandeR")
install.packages("aleksandeR", repos = c('https://aleksanderbl29.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))
library(aleksandeR)

Functions

The functions of this package all belong to one of the following types:

1. Formatting/output (great for Quarto or Rmarkdown)
2. ggplot themes
3. Misc. functions

Formatting and output

I currently have format_num() that formats numbers in a way that conforms to nothern european number presentation standards.

Themes for ggplot2

All my custom themes are very close to either ggplot2::theme_minimal() or cowplot::theme_cowplot() but have my own twists and personal defaults integrated. The themes are created for each type of plot and can be called individually or through the aptly named theme_aleksander().

Misc.

This includes pkg_bib().

Development

This package is built with the instructions from the great package-book R Packages (2e).

For the themes I try to do test-driven development. It was first introduced to me in the great video series by Pat Schloss. Take a look if you’re interested. Video link