Awesome VectoRs

A curated list of amazingly awesome R vector classes, and the packages that provide them.

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING if you wish to add a new vector class.

Awesome VectoRs
- Contributing
- Table of Contents
- Numbers
  - base
  - bignum
  - debkeepr
  - errors
  - fracture
  - nombre
  - pillar
  - quantities
  - units
- Date and time
  - aweek
  - base
  - clock
  - dint
  - era
  - hms
  - intermittent
  - tsibble
- Strings
  - base
  - pillar
- Compound
  - biblids
  - blob
  - dialr
  - haven
  - intrval
  - ivs
  - term
  - tf
  - units
- Computing
  - ipaddress
- Geospatial
  - geos
  - sf
  - s2
  - wk
- Internal
  - textrecipes
- Colours
  - palettes
Resources
- Books
- Repositories
- Blog posts
- Talks
- License

Numbers

Classes that wrap numbers.

base

hexmode - Hexadecimal numbers: 2A
integer - 32-bit integers: 1
numeric - Floating-point numbers: 1.234567
numeric_version - Software versions: '1.23.456'
octmode - Octal numbers: 52

bignum

bigfloat - High precision numbers: 0.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
biginteger - Arbitrary precision integers: 25852016738884976640000

debkeepr

deb_decimal - Non-decimal currencies as double with unit and bases attributes: 3.825
deb_lsd - Tripartite non-decimal currencies: 8:13s:4d
deb_tetra - Tetrapartite non-decimal currencies: 8:13s:4d:3f

errors

errors - Numbers with uncertainty: 1 ± 0.3

fracture

fracture - Fractions: 1/3

nombre

nombre - Number names: one

pillar

num - Numbers with formatting: 1.00

quantities

quantities - Numbers with units and uncertainty: 1 ± 0.3 [m/s]

units

units - Numbers with units: 1 [m/s]

Date and time

Classes that wrap dates and times.

aweek

aweek - Weeks that start on any day of the week: 2020-W10-2

base

POSIXct - Calendar time with time zone, stored as days since epoch: 2020-03-03 09:16:17 CET
POSIXlt - Calendar time with time zone, stored as record of components: 2020-03-03 09:16:17 CET

clock

calendar - Alternative representations of calendar dates, such as year-quarter-day or year-month-weekday: 2019-02-Sun[2]
time_point - Variable precision points in time, with and without time zones: "2020-02-01 02:03:04.000005"

dint

date_y - Years: 2020
date_yq - Year-quarter: 2020-Q1
date_ym - Year-month: 2013-M12
date_yw - Year-week: 2013-W12

era

yr - Year-based time scales: 4.2 ka

hms

hms - Time of day: 12:34:56

intermittent

term - Represent ordinal academic semesters: 20164

tsibble

yearmonth - Year-month: 2016 Jan
yearquarter - Year-quarter: 2016 Q1
yearweek - Year-week: 2021 W50

Strings

Classes that wrap character strings.

base

character - Strings: "a"

pillar

char - Strings with minimum width and custom abbreviation: abc…xyz

Compound

Classes that wrap complex objects.

biblids

doi - Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs): 10.1000/1

blob

blob - Binary Large OBjects: blob[42 B]

dialr

phone - Phone numbers parsed with Google's libphonenumber for formatting and further processing: # Parsed phone numbers: 5 total, 4 successfully parsed

haven

labelled - Labelled vectors: <Labelled double> 3 with labels

intrval

intrval - Relational operators for intervals: x %[]% c(a, b)

ivs

iv - Interval vectors: [2019-01-05, 2019-05-06) [2019-01-06, 2019-05-22)

units

mixed_units - Numbers with different units: 1 [m], 2 [kg]

term

term - Labels for values in numeric objects: beta[1,2]

tf

tfd - Tidy functional data: (0.0, 2.84);(0.5, -0.51);(1.0, -0.51)
tfb - Tidy functional basis data: (0.0, 2.84);(0.5, -0.51);(1.0, -0.51)

Computing

Classes related to computing

ipaddress

ip_address - IP address: 192.168.0.1
ip_interface - IP interface: 192.168.0.1/24
ip_network - IP network: 192.168.0.0/24

Geospatial

Classes related to geospatial

geos

geos_geometry - Geometry vector as GEOS external pointers: <POINT (0 1)>

s2

s2_geography, s2_cell - Geometry vector of points on the sphere as external pointers to S2 objects, S2 cell IDs as 64-bit integers: <POINT (0 1)>