labor

The goal of {labor} is to keep your project folder structured, tidy and to sync it easily to local folders.

The package works only on MacOs systems.

Installation

Download the package in a local folder and then run the following code.

devtools::install_local("path_to_package")

Alternatively, you can install it directly from github.

devtools::install_github("c1au6i0/labor")

Usage

Create a folder tree

To set up your lab folder, start running create_labtree.

The function generates the folder structure used for projects in our lab, and relative README files.

If you run the function multiple types, you will be prompt to decide if overwrite or not particular folders.

Use remove_labtree to remove the folders just created.

Sync with local folder

Under the hood, the package {labor} use rsync to sync local folders. Set up the destination folder using set_sync_lab

The destination folder is saved (.labor_destination) in a file in the project directory .

Then run sync_lab to sync the project folder with the destination.

Convenient things about lab_sync :

1. No need to retype origin and destination every time in rsync.
2. Files containing authentication information and renv packages are not synced. You can use exclude_files to decide to not sync other specific files.
3. You can bidirectional sync the folders by setting the argument direction
4. You can still decide to use any rsync flags by setting the argument rsync_flags (default is -avtuP).

Are you keeping things in the right place?

Run check_lab to see if you have messy directories.

The report generated indicates the absolute and over the total number of files misplaced and it lists them.