EeethB
January 23, 2020, 2:37pm
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Hello, and welcome to the RStudio Community! We're glad you're here.
Have you seen our guide to creating a minimal repr oducible ex ample (reprex)?
A minimal reproducible example consists of the following items:
A minimal dataset, necessary to reproduce the issue
The minimal runnable code necessary to reproduce the issue, which can be run
on the given dataset, and including the necessary information on the used packages.
Let's quickly go over each one of these with examples:
Minimal Dataset (Sample Data)
You need to provide a data frame that is small enough to be (reasonably) pasted on a post, but big enough to reproduce your issue.
Let's say, as an example, that you are working with the iris data frame
head(iris)
#> Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
#> 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.…
It's admittedly a bit long, but the TL;DR is that it's extremely helpful to post the actual code you used to generate the error, preferably in a form that can be directly copied and pasted into someone else's IDE and run.
Reading the code formatting FAQ may also be helpful:
Formatting Code: the Basics
All code or console output you include in your posts should be formatted properly. Luckily, this is very easy to do! Just use the code formatting button at the top of the post editing box:
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Select some code
Click the </> button!
The code formatting button automatically adds special Markdown formatting symbols to whatever you selected. If you check the preview pane to the right of your post, you'll see that the forum software now outputs nicely formatted code .
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The code formatting button is pretty smart! It can tell the difference between snippets of code that are part of a sentence and blocks of code that stand alone. …