ropen is a command line viewer of data files for R. It reads an input data file (with a proper file name extension) into an interactive R session.

• io

Download a release archive, extract it, and place ropen in a directory included in the $PATH environmental variable, such as /usr/local/bin.

If you are on Linux, you can also do

curl -L https://github.com/djhshih/ropen/archive/v0.2.tar.gz | \
	tar -xz --strip-components=1 ropen-*/ropen
install ropen /usr/local/bin && rm ropen

Note that the second line requires root permission (sudo).

ropen infile.ext

ropen will read the input file infile.ext, assuming that the file format is correctly specified by the file extension ext. This file extension must be supported by the io R package.

If you run more than one instance of ropen within the same directory, do not start the second instance before the first instance is finished with initialization. Otherwise, the behaviour is undefined.