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...cache.vars If the code chunk you want to cache creates many objects, but you only want to save a few of them, you can use knitr’s cache.vars chunk option. Simply give it a character vector of the objects’ names that you want to save.

Reproducible Research With R and RStudio

Christopher Gandrud

You can extract tables from this PDF using the aptly-named extract_tables function, like this: # default call with no parameters changed matrix_results <- extract_tables(site) # get back the tables as data frames, keeping their headers df_results <- extract_tables(site, output = "data.frame", header = TRUE)

Getting Data From PDFs the Easy Way With R - Open Source Automation

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the gert package can find and return Git’s preferences via gert::git_config_global()

Persistent Config and Data for R Packages - R-Hub Blog

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