numeract / Nmisc

Miscellaneous R tools used at Numeract

Nmisc

Contains functions useful for debugging, set operations on vectors, and 'UTC' date and time functionality. It adds a few vector manipulation verbs to 'purrr' and 'dplyr' packages. It can also generate an R file to install and update packages to simplify deployment into production. The functions were developed at the data science firm 'Numeract LLC' and are used in several packages and projects.

Installation

From CRAN

install.packages("Nmisc")

From GitHub

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("numeract/Nmisc")

Please note that the GitHub version requires GitHub versions of glue and tidyselect

Functions

The package is still in development, functions will be updated.

• related to base package
  • catn, str1, str2, clear_warnings
  • keep_if_in / %if_in%, keep_if_not_in / %if_not_in%
  • seq_ncol, seq_nrow
  • setequal_na
• date & time:
  • is.POSIXct, format_utc, now_utc
• os:
  • get_os
• extending purrr:
  • keep_at and discard_at
• extending dplyr:
  • pull_with_names
• package related:
  • get_packages and generate_install_file