Miscellaneous Functions for Creating Adaptive Functions and Scripts

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NCmisc-package Miscellaneous Functions for Creating Adaptive Functions and Scripts
check.linux.install Check whether a given system command is installed (e.g, bash)
comify Function to add commas for large numbers
comma.list Print out comma separated list of values in X, truncating if many (good for error messages)
cor.with Simulate a correlated variable
Dim A more general dimension function
dup.pairs Obtain an index of all instances of values with duplicates (ordered)
estimate.memory Estimate the memory required for an object.
exists.not.function Does object exist ignoring functions The exists() function can tell you whether an object exists at all, or whether an object exists with a certain type, but it can be useful to know whether an object exists as genuine data (and not a function) which can be important when a variable or object is accidently or intentionally given the same name as a function. This function usually returns a logical value as to the existence of the object (ignoring functions) but can also be set to return the non-function type if the object exists.
extend.pc Extend an interval by percentage
fakeLines Create fake text for testing purposes
file.split Split a text file into multiple parts
force.percentage Force argument to be a percentage with length one
force.scalar Force argument to be a numeric type with length one
get.distinct.cols Return up to 22 distinct colours.
getRepositories Detect all available R repositories.
has.method Determine whether a function can be applied to an S4 class/object
Header Print heading text with a border.
headl A good way to preview large lists.
is.vec.logical Determine robustly whether a vector contains logical data
is.vec.numeric Determine robustly whether a vector contains numeric data
list.functions.in.file Show all functions used in an R script file, by package
list.to.env Create variables from a list
loess.scatter Draw a scatterplot with a fit line
loop.tracker Creates a progess bar within a loop
memory.summary Summary of RAM footprint for all R objects in the current session. Not my function, but taken from an R-Help response by Elizabeth Purdom, at Berkeley. Simply applies the function 'object.size' to the objects in ls(). Also very similar to an example in the 'Help' for the utils::object.size() function.
Mode Find the mode of a vector.
must.use.package Do everything possible to load an R package.
narm Return an object with missing values removed.
NCmisc Miscellaneous Functions for Creating Adaptive Functions and Scripts
nearest.to Select the nearest point in an array to a given value
Numerify Convert all possible columns of a data.frame to numeric
out.of Easily display fraction and percentages
p.to.Z Convert p-values to Z-scores
packages.loaded Check whether a set of packages has been loaded
pad.left Print a vector with appropriate padding so each has equal char length.
pctile Find data thresholds corresponding to percentiles
ppa Posterior probability of association function
preview Output variable states within functions during testing/debugging
prv Output variable states within functions/loops during testing/debugging
prv.large Tidy display function for matrix objects
replace.missing.df Iterate through numeric columns of a dataframe and replace missing with the mean
Rfile.index Create an index file for an R function file
rmv.names Remove names from a named vector or list
rmv.spc Remove leading and trailing spaces (or other character).
search.cran Search all CRAN packages for those containing keyword(s).
sim.cor Simulate a dataset with correlated measures
simple.date Simple representation and retrieval of Date/Time
spc Print a character a specified number of times.
standardize Convert a numeric vector to Z-scores.
Substitute Convert objects as arguments to object names
summarise.r.datasets Summarise the dimensions and type of available R example datasets
summary2 Descriptive summary with SD/SE + improved formatting
table2d Wrapper for the base table() function that includes zero counts - useful to get consistent dimensions across multiple runs with different responding patterns Forces a 2d table with every possible cell (allow zero counts) Only for tables where there are two vectors entered, while the base function allows for more, or also allows just 1. If the wrong arguments are entered, attempts to pass the input to the base version of 'table' instead.
textogram Make an ascii histogram in the console.
timeit Times an expression, with breakdown of time spent in each function !DEPRECATED October 14, 2022!
toheader Return a string with each first letter of each word in upper case.
top Monitor CPU, RAM and Processes
Unlist Unlist a list, starting only from a set depth.
wait Wait for a period of time.
which.outlier Return vector indexes of statistical univariate outliers
Z.to.p Convert Z-scores to p-values