October 17, 2024 at 8:41 PM
breakerofchains: still the best, most underutilized RStudio addin.
GitHub - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains: Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free.
Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free. - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains
github.com
July 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
breakerofchains: still the best, most underutilized RStudio addin.
breakerofchains by @milesmcbain.bsky.social. “use often” is an understatement.
April 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
breakerofchains by @milesmcbain.bsky.social. “use often” is an understatement.
May I suggest: github.com/MilesMcBain/...
GitHub - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains: Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free.
Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free. - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains
github.com
February 22, 2026 at 2:53 PM
May I suggest: github.com/MilesMcBain/...
If you use #tidyverse / dplyr, breakerofchains by @milesmcbain.bsky.social is one of my favorite productivity #rstats 📦
Very excited to learn that it works in #positron too! One more reason to keep using this IDE, absolutely loving it
forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...
Very excited to learn that it works in #positron too! One more reason to keep using this IDE, absolutely loving it
forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...
breakerofchains or similar for Positron
One of my all-time favorite R packages is Miles McBain's breakerofchains. You can put your cursor anywhere in a piped command, run a keyboard shortcut, and RStudio will run everything up to the curre...
forum.posit.co
July 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
If you use #tidyverse / dplyr, breakerofchains by @milesmcbain.bsky.social is one of my favorite productivity #rstats 📦
Very excited to learn that it works in #positron too! One more reason to keep using this IDE, absolutely loving it
forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...
Very excited to learn that it works in #positron too! One more reason to keep using this IDE, absolutely loving it
forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...
Does anything like breakerofchains from @milesmcbain.bsky.social exist for Positron? forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc... #Rstats
July 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Does anything like breakerofchains from @milesmcbain.bsky.social exist for Positron? forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc... #Rstats
easily one of the R packages I use the most is @milesmcbain.bsky.social's breakerofchains, which elegantly runs everything in a piped command up to the current line
No more fussy highlighting of just the right parts!
No more fussy highlighting of just the right parts!
GitHub - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains: Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free.
Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free. - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains
github.com
August 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
easily one of the R packages I use the most is @milesmcbain.bsky.social's breakerofchains, which elegantly runs everything in a piped command up to the current line
No more fussy highlighting of just the right parts!
No more fussy highlighting of just the right parts!
The thing is, I feel it’s the {breakerofchains} crowd who are most likely hunt me down if I ever retired the repo.
The GOAT RStudio addin by @milesmcbain.bsky.social
Jonathan McPherson just mentioned datapasta at the opening keynote of #positconf, so I'm sharing this once again to share the magic, for all those discovering it for the very first time ❤️
#databs #rstats
#databs #rstats
September 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The thing is, I feel it’s the {breakerofchains} crowd who are most likely hunt me down if I ever retired the repo.
The Positron data viewer is so cool that I thought I'd give The IDE another go. It's actually quite nice! Especially with breakerofchains (which also emulates the alt+enter 'run line and don't move point' -command) and the Awesome Emacs Keymap extension.
#rstats
#rstats
August 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Positron data viewer is so cool that I thought I'd give The IDE another go. It's actually quite nice! Especially with breakerofchains (which also emulates the alt+enter 'run line and don't move point' -command) and the Awesome Emacs Keymap extension.
#rstats
#rstats
Hi! I use this every day in positron, it's great. you just need to have the package installed and set up a keybinding like the VS code instructions github.com/MilesMcBain/...
I create 2 shortcuts, the regular 1 that prints output to console, and then an additional one with View() wrapped around it
I create 2 shortcuts, the regular 1 that prints output to console, and then an additional one with View() wrapped around it
GitHub - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains: Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free.
Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free. - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains
github.com
July 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Hi! I use this every day in positron, it's great. you just need to have the package installed and set up a keybinding like the VS code instructions github.com/MilesMcBain/...
I create 2 shortcuts, the regular 1 that prints output to console, and then an additional one with View() wrapped around it
I create 2 shortcuts, the regular 1 that prints output to console, and then an additional one with View() wrapped around it
here's how I bind breakerofchains::break_chain() to a keyboard shortcut in Positron
August 26, 2026 at 2:35 AM
here's how I bind breakerofchains::break_chain() to a keyboard shortcut in Positron
I *required* this because I get grumpy without breakerofchains, one of my absolute favorite rstudio tricks.
forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...
forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...
breakerofchains or similar for Positron
One of my all-time favorite R packages is Miles McBain's breakerofchains. You can put your cursor anywhere in a piped command, run a keyboard shortcut, and RStudio will run everything up to the curre...
forum.posit.co
September 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I *required* this because I get grumpy without breakerofchains, one of my absolute favorite rstudio tricks.
forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...
forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...
Breakerofchains package
October 9, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Breakerofchains package
Great post! I've gone through a similar process of trying to figure out the best workflow for this kind of thing. Hadn't seen peek() before, definitely checking that out.
You may also be interested in {breakerofchains} by @milesmcbain.bsky.social
github.com/MilesMcBain/...
You may also be interested in {breakerofchains} by @milesmcbain.bsky.social
github.com/MilesMcBain/...
GitHub - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains: Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free.
Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free. - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains
github.com
November 6, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Great post! I've gone through a similar process of trying to figure out the best workflow for this kind of thing. Hadn't seen peek() before, definitely checking that out.
You may also be interested in {breakerofchains} by @milesmcbain.bsky.social
github.com/MilesMcBain/...
You may also be interested in {breakerofchains} by @milesmcbain.bsky.social
github.com/MilesMcBain/...
To use breakerofchains in Positron, put something like this in your keybindings.json
August 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
To use breakerofchains in Positron, put something like this in your keybindings.json
relatedly, you may be interested in my absolute favorite, most-used R package, for inspecting the middle of a piped chain in interactive development
breakerofchains: Break Chained Expressions and Run Them with Printed Output
Run an infix operator expression chain up to the line your cursor is on, printing the output, and ignoring any result assignment step. This facilitates easier interactive debugging of chained code. Co...
milesmcbain.r-universe.dev
August 25, 2026 at 6:38 PM
relatedly, you may be interested in my absolute favorite, most-used R package, for inspecting the middle of a piped chain in interactive development
Alfred all day. I have so many litte tweaks and hotkeys set up with Alfred that I forget which ones aren’t default system behavior.
I’m in the RStudio over VScode for R scripting camp, especially because of addons like breakerofchains. iTerm2 for all the stuff Terminal should have and doesn’t.
I’m in the RStudio over VScode for R scripting camp, especially because of addons like breakerofchains. iTerm2 for all the stuff Terminal should have and doesn’t.
GitHub - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains: Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free.
Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free. - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains
github.com
March 24, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Alfred all day. I have so many litte tweaks and hotkeys set up with Alfred that I forget which ones aren’t default system behavior.
I’m in the RStudio over VScode for R scripting camp, especially because of addons like breakerofchains. iTerm2 for all the stuff Terminal should have and doesn’t.
I’m in the RStudio over VScode for R scripting camp, especially because of addons like breakerofchains. iTerm2 for all the stuff Terminal should have and doesn’t.
My current flow combines {breakerofchains} with {flippingtables} to cycle through the most useful view of the data for what I am doing.
github.com/MilesMcBain/...
github.com/MilesMcBain/...
GitHub - MilesMcBain/flippingtables: turn the tables on data.frame printing
turn the tables on data.frame printing. Contribute to MilesMcBain/flippingtables development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2024 at 12:39 PM
My current flow combines {breakerofchains} with {flippingtables} to cycle through the most useful view of the data for what I am doing.
github.com/MilesMcBain/...
github.com/MilesMcBain/...
Oh Dany, I’ve missed you #BreakerofChains #GoT
December 4, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Oh Dany, I’ve missed you #BreakerofChains #GoT
Hazel https://hazel.org/ is very cool - tooltips used to probe intermediate states of functions. I know of the breakerofchains package for R, but is there one that adds this sort of overlay to a compatible editor (e.g. VSCode/positron)?
This example of course […]
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This example of course […]
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June 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Hazel https://hazel.org/ is very cool - tooltips used to probe intermediate states of functions. I know of the breakerofchains package for R, but is there one that adds this sort of overlay to a compatible editor (e.g. VSCode/positron)?
This example of course […]
[Original post on fosstodon.org]
This example of course […]
[Original post on fosstodon.org]
This has quickly become ingrained in my workflow, incredibly useful both when using pipes and in {ggplot2} #RStats https://github.com/MilesMcBain/breakerofchains from .@MilesMcBain
GitHub - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains: Break your chain at...
Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. S...
github.com
November 16, 2024 at 9:58 AM
This has quickly become ingrained in my workflow, incredibly useful both when using pipes and in {ggplot2} #RStats https://github.com/MilesMcBain/breakerofchains from .@MilesMcBain
Thank you for tagging me. Joining the fun, but I'm a #breakerofchains nonetheless 🐺
December 2, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Thank you for tagging me. Joining the fun, but I'm a #breakerofchains nonetheless 🐺
November 22, 2024 at 7:50 PM