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Documentation for package ‘kutils’ version 1.73

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all.equal.key	An all.equal method for variable wide keys
all.equal.keylong	An all.equal method for variable long keys
alphaOnly	Keep only alpha-numeric symbols
anonomize	Create unique anonymous id values
assignMissing	Set missing values
assignRecode	A variable is transformed in an indicated way
checkCoercion	Check if values can be safely coerced without introduction of missing values
colnamesReplace	Replace column names with new names from a named vector
deduper	Removes redundant words from beginnings of character strings
deleteBogusColumns	Remove columns in which the proportion of missing data exceeds a threshold.
deleteBogusRows	Remove rows in which the proportion of missing data exceeds a threshold.
dev.create	Create a graphics device
dir.create.unique	Create a uniquely named directory. Appends number & optionally date to directory name.
dms	Delete multiple slashes, replace with one
dts	Delete trailing slash
escape	Text that is to be included as content in documents is cleaned (escaped) to prevent errors
file.backup	Create a backup version of a file by renaming it.
histOMatic	Show variables, one at a time, QUICKLY and EASILY.
importQualtrics	Import Qualtrics survey files, apply clean column names
initProject	Create project directories, initialize a git repo, create README.md ChangeLog, and R template file in R directory
is.data.frame.simple	Check if a data frame is a simple collection of columns (no lists or matrices within)
isNA	Check if values are R NA symbol or any one of the na.strings elements
keyApply	Apply variable key to data frame (generate recoded data frame)
keyCheck	Check a key for consistency of names, values with classes.
keyCrossRef	keyCrossRef
keyDiagnostic	Diagnose accuracy of result from applying variable key to data
keyDiff	Show difference between 2 keys
keyImport	Import/validate a key object or import/validate a key from a file.
keyLookup	Look for old (or new) names in variable key
keyRead	Read file after deducing file type from suffix.
keySave	Save key as file after deducing type from suffix
keysPool	Homogenize class values and create a long key by pooling variable keys.
keysPoolCheck	Compares keys from different data sets; finds differences classes of variables. This used to check for similarity of keys from various data sets, one precursor to either combining the keys or merging the data sets themselves.
keyTemplate	Create variable key template (in memory or in a file)
keyTemplateSPSS	Import an SPSS file, create a key representing the numeric -> factor transition
keyTemplateStata	Import a Stata (version 12 or lower) file, create a key representing the numeric -> factor transition
keyUpdate	Update a key in light of a new data frame (add variables and values)
likert	Percentage tables for Likert Scale variables
long2wide	convert a key object from long to wide format
mergeCheck	First draft of function to diagnose problems in merges and key variables
mgsub	apply a vector of replacements, one after the other.
modifyVector	Use new information to update a vector. Similar in concept to R's modify list
n2NA	Convert nothing to R missing(NA).
natlongsurv	Smoking, Happiness, and other survey responses
padW0	Insert 0's in the front of existing digits or characters so that all elements of a vector have the same number of characters.
peek	Show variables, one at a time, QUICKLY and EASILY.
print.keycheck	Print out the result of mergeCheck function.
print.keyDiff	Print a keyDiff object
print.likert	print method for likert tables
qualtricsBlockStack	Create meta data frame to align identical questions
removeMatches	Remove elements if they are in a target vector, possibly replacing with NA
reverse	Reverse the levels in a factor
safeInteger	If a numeric variable has only integer values, then make it an integer.
shorten	Reduce each in a vector of strings to a given length
starsig	How many stars would we need for this p value?
statdatKey	keyFactors: private function that does work for keyTemplateSPSS and key template Stata
stringbreak	Insert "\n" after the k'th character in a string. This IS vectorized, so can receive just one or many character strings in a vector.
truncsmart	Cuts a string at a specified linewidth, trying to align cut with a separator
updatePackages	Update packages, spot new dependencies, and install them
varlabTemplate	Create Variable Label Template
wide2long	Convert a key object from wide to long format
writeCSV	Write CSV files with quotes same as MS Excel 2013 or newer
zapspace	Convert leading or trailing white space and tab characters to nothing.