[Feature request] Output rcode of all edit actions

[OliverFishCode]

It would be nice if you could output an rscript or code that replicates all actions and edits needed to replicate the data. While this would make editing faster and easier, recode output would help new r users learn and keep the process reproducable

[DillonHammill]

@OliverFishCode, this is on my list of things to do but it will take some time before I get to this. After playing around with this a bit, I think the best approach would be to compare the original data to the edited data and convert the changes to code. I think the waldo package may be perfect for this but happy to hear other suggestions...

[DillonHammill]

@OliverFishCode, in the meantime, I just pushed an update to the devel branch to add a code argument to allow printing of the code required to create the edited data. It will only print code to make the edited object and not the steps made to get from the original data to the edited data.

# DataEditR v0.0.7
devtools::install_github("DillonHammill/DataEditR", ref = "devel")

# Edit data
data_edit(mtcars,
          code = TRUE)

# Printed to console
structure(list(mpg = c(21, 21, 22.8, 21.4, 18.7, 18.1, 14.3, 
24.4, 22.8, 19.2, 17.8, 16.4, 17.3, 15.2, 10.4, 10.4, 14.7, 32.4, 
30.4, 33.9, 21.5, 15.5, 15.2, 13.3, 19.2, 27.3, 26, 30.4, 15.8, 
19.7, 15, 21.4), cyl = c(6L, 6L, 4L, 6L, 8L, 6L, 8L, 4L, 4L, 
6L, 6L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 
4L, 4L, 4L, 8L, 6L, 8L, 4L), disp = c(160, 160, 108, 258, 360, 
225, 360, 146.7, 140.8, 167.6, 167.6, 275.8, 275.8, 275.8, 472, 
460, 440, 78.7, 75.7, 71.1, 120.1, 318, 304, 350, 400, 79, 120.3, 
95.1, 351, 145, 301, 121), hp = c(110L, 110L, 93L, 110L, 175L, 
105L, 245L, 62L, 95L, 123L, 123L, 180L, 180L, 180L, 205L, 215L, 
230L, 66L, 52L, 65L, 97L, 150L, 150L, 245L, 175L, 66L, 91L, 113L, 
264L, 175L, 335L, 109L), drat = c(3.9, 3.9, 3.85, 3.08, 3.15, 
2.76, 3.21, 3.69, 3.92, 3.92, 3.92, 3.07, 3.07, 3.07, 2.93, 3, 
3.23, 4.08, 4.93, 4.22, 3.7, 2.76, 3.15, 3.73, 3.08, 4.08, 4.43, 
3.77, 4.22, 3.62, 3.54, 4.11), wt = c(2.62, 2.875, 2.32, 3.215, 
3.44, 3.46, 3.57, 3.19, 3.15, 3.44, 3.44, 4.07, 3.73, 3.78, 5.25, 
5.424, 5.345, 2.2, 1.615, 1.835, 2.465, 3.52, 3.435, 3.84, 3.845, 
1.935, 2.14, 1.513, 3.17, 2.77, 3.57, 2.78), qsec = c(16.46, 
17.02, 18.61, 19.44, 17.02, 20.22, 15.84, 20, 22.9, 18.3, 18.9, 
17.4, 17.6, 18, 17.98, 17.82, 17.42, 19.47, 18.52, 19.9, 20.01, 
16.87, 17.3, 15.41, 17.05, 18.9, 16.7, 16.9, 14.5, 15.5, 14.6, 
18.6), vs = c(0L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 
0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 
0L, 0L, 0L, 1L), am = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 
0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), gear = c(4L, 4L, 4L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 
4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 
3L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 4L), carb = c(4L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 
2L, 1L, 4L, 2L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 
1L, 2L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 4L, 6L, 8L, 2L)), row.names = c("Mazda RX4", 
"Mazda RX4 Wag", "Datsun 710", "Hornet 4 Drive", "Hornet Sportabout", 
"Valiant", "Duster 360", "Merc 240D", "Merc 230", "Merc 280", 
"Merc 280C", "Merc 450SE", "Merc 450SL", "Merc 450SLC", "Cadillac Fleetwood", 
"Lincoln Continental", "Chrysler Imperial", "Fiat 128", "Honda Civic", 
"Toyota Corolla", "Toyota Corona", "Dodge Challenger", "AMC Javelin", 
"Camaro Z28", "Pontiac Firebird", "Fiat X1-9", "Porsche 914-2", 
"Lotus Europa", "Ford Pantera L", "Ferrari Dino", "Maserati Bora", 
"Volvo 142E"), class = "data.frame")

If you copy and paste the code in the console, you will be able to the same object as that exported by data_edit(). I would still like to add tidyverse style code to replicate all changes in a stepwise manner but this will take time.

[sebacea]

@OliverFishCode @DillonHammill any updates on this. I would like to help with this functionality.

[DillonHammill]

@sebacea unfortunately I haven't had time to work on this yet.

I would be more than happy to accept any pull requests which add support for this.

I looked into using waldo a while back but diffobj may also be useful: https://github.com/brodieG/diffobj