remlapmot’s gists

remlapmot / fix-dpkg-deb-error.sh

Created February 9, 2022 10:33

dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

remlapmot / command-line-tools.sh

Created February 3, 2022 13:47

Install command line tools on macOS without installing Xcode

xcode-select --install

remlapmot / sumatrapdf-previewer.cmd

Last active September 14, 2023 12:49

Register SumatrPdf as PDF previewer in Outlook desktop app on Windows 11

regsvr32 "%APPDATA%\..\Local\SumatraPDF\PdfPreview.dll"

remlapmot / install-nloptr.R

Created November 16, 2021 20:01

Install nloptr from source

remlapmot / shrink-docker-wsl.ps1

Last active October 12, 2021 10:01

Shrink WSL2 virtual disks and Docker images

	# ensure hyper v installed
	# DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /All /FeatureName:Microsoft-Hyper-V

	# https://www.hanselman.com/blog/shrink-your-wsl2-virtual-disks-and-docker-images-and-reclaim-disk-space
	cd $env:LOCALAPPDATA\Docker\wsl\data
	optimize-vhd -Path .\ext4.vhdx -Mode full

	# optional
	# start docker
	Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Docker Desktop.exe"

remlapmot / Makevars.win

Last active February 10, 2022 15:45

Environment variables for building some R packages from source on WIndows; location ${HOME}/.R

	# CC="C:\Program Files\LLVM\bin\clang.exe"
	# CXX="C:\Program Files\LLVM\bin\clang++.exe"
	# CXX11="C:\Program Files\LLVM\bin\clang++.exe"
	# CXX14="C:\Program Files\LLVM\bin\clang++.exe"
	# CXXFLAGS=-O1 -g -fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer
	# PKG_CXXFLAGS=-Og -fsanitize=address
	# LDFLAGS=-fsanitize=address

	## CXX14FLAGS += -mtune=native -O3 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mssse3 -msse4.1 -msse4.2
	CXX14FLAGS=-O3 -mtune=native -march=native -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-function

remlapmot / fix-hanging-rstudio-server.sh

Created September 21, 2021 13:27

Fix RStudio server hanging on opening

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	rm -r ~/.local/share/rstudio/sessions/active

remlapmot / r-cmd-check-as-cran.R

Last active May 4, 2025 14:22

Run devtools::check() as CRAN

	# Run check as CRAN (well sort of)
	devtools::check(env_vars = c(NOT_CRAN = FALSE))

	devtools::check(env_vars = c(NOT_CRAN = FALSE), cran = TRUE, force_suggests = TRUE, incoming = TRUE)

	# Additionally not building/re-running the vignettes
	devtools::check(
	env_vars = c(NOT_CRAN = FALSE),
	args = c(
	'--no-manual',

remlapmot / useful-devtools-macos.sh

Last active February 10, 2022 15:46

Useful developer tools on macOS

	# macOS developer tools without installing XCode
	xcode-select --install

	# homebrew
	/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
	brew install checkbashisms

remlapmot / useful-stata-packages.do

Created September 13, 2021 13:15

Useful Stata packages

Tom Palmer remlapmot