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njtierney / syn

syn - the thesaurus
http://syn.njtierney.com/
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RStudio Addin idea #26

Closed sdhutchins closed 5 years ago

sdhutchins commented 5 years ago

I came across this package (and I love the idea)!

I was wondering if there was any thought about creating an addin for this and perhaps an interactive one?

njtierney commented 5 years ago

Hello!

I think that is a great idea - the only thing stopping me from jumping on this is that I think I would prefer the syn package to be dependency free.

That said, I'm not really sure what the added benefit really is of having a dependency free package like this. I think that having addins would make the package more accessible and useful.

Someone else has actually implemented an add-in with syn - called synamin or something like that, I actually can't find it, unfortunately, I can't remember the name.

So, in short, both of your ideas are awesome, and I think they would be great to add - how would you feel about making a pull request to include these features? I would be happy to review your code. Then, if we decide that syn shouldn't include these features, you can create your own awesome package with these features?

Sorry that is a bit of a complex answer, but happy to discuss further :)

sdhutchins commented 5 years ago

Thanks for responding, @njtierney!

I located the package you mentioned, synamyn.

It actually does a lot of what I hoped the addin would do outside of readability and searching the entire document to provide "suggestions". I can certainly see the value of keeping a package like this dependency free, but I'll certainly look into making a PR or just chatting with the creator of synamyn (maybe both).

njtierney commented 5 years ago

OK, thanks @sdhutchins !