repromonkey

Repro monkey brings a little chaos to your R session in the name of reproducibility.

Summon the repro monkey to lurk in your workspace. He always asks for consent first. The easiest way is to add repromonkey to your .Rprofile so that you'll always be on your toes when working.

Installation

You can install the repromonkey from gadenbuie/repromonkey with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("gadenbuie/repromonkey")

⚠️ Warning ⚠️

This is a fun tool to help bolster your confidence as you follow and hone your reproducibility best practices skills. But it does come at the risk of data loss and frustration (just like the real world). Your consent is requested at each R session restart.

Chaos Monkeys

The repro monkey may (with 10-30 seconds of warning):

• Clear your workspace

• Scramble your global environment (but not functions!)

• Restart your R session

• Stash and close your Untitled2.R script somewhere in your project

• Taunt you as you work

Add to .Rprofile

To summon the repro monkey automatically, edit your .Rprofile and add the following lines. (If you use the library usethis, you can can call usethis::edit_r_profile().)

if (interactive() && requireNamespace("repromonkey", quietly = TRUE)) {
 repromonkey::repromonkey()
}

If you want to waive the interactive consent, add consented = TRUE to the call to repromonkey().

Note that you can also choose to add repromonkey to specific projects using project-specific .Rprofile files.

Inspiration

Inspired by Netflix's Chaos Monkey and this screencast by David Robinson where he went almost 50 minutes without saving his R script! 😱