Michael McCarthy mccarthy-m-g
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/ inspect-rmd-diff-from-last-commit.R
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GitHub doesn't show rich diffs for Rmd files. That can make collaborative writing tough. Here's how to see rich diffs of two commits of a single R Markdown document on a GitHub repo or local Git repo
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| # another method | |
| # remotes::install_github("ropenscilabs/reviewer") | |
| browseURL(reviewer::diff_rmd("analysis/paper/paper.qmd", | |
| # this gets the sha of the previous commit | |
| git2r::commits(n=2)[[2]]$sha)$raw) |