Custom snippets in RStudio: ⚡ faster tweet chunks for all

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✂️ Snippets in RStudio

As Sean Lopp describes in his super helpful post, RStudio IDE Easy Tricks You Might’ve Missed ⭐:

Code snippets are a shortcut to insert common boilerplate code.

You might also refer to them as “text macros”1— either way, they’re useful for speeding up the process of doing a thing in RStudio that you do frequently. In my case, this includes inserting “tweet chunks” in blogdown posts using a Hugo shortcode.2

📝 Adding a Markdown snippet

The RStudio Support Code Snippets post is a great step-by-step for adding snippets of your own. The gist of it for a markdown snippet is as follows:

  1. Open RStudio Preferences
  2. Go to the Code section
  3. Click the Edit Snippets button3
  4. Select Markdown
  5. Add your snippet and Save 🎉

🐦 twe blogdown snippet

Now, for the actual snippet, and how to use it.

1. Get the tweet id number from twitter 🐦

2. Go into your R Markdown document

3. Type t-w-e and then ⌨️ Shift-Tab

4. Fill in tweetid (paste if copied)

5. Serve site 🎉

Fin

Go forth, embed tweets, and prosper! Hit me up @dataandme, or comment if I got something wrong, or right, or if the spirit moves you to do so. 💖

  1. As does J.J. Allaire in the useful Code Snippets entry of RStudio Support.↩

  2. For more examples of using shortcodes in blogdown, check out Andrew Clark’s handy Hugo Shortcodes post.↩

  3. If the Enable code snippets radio button isn’t checked, click that, too.↩

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