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broman (version 0.92)

Karl Broman's R Code

Description

Miscellaneous R functions, including functions related to graphics (mostly for base graphics), permutation tests, running mean/median, and general utilities.

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Karl Broman

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December 8th, 2025

Functions in broman (0.92)

colwalpha

Convert a color to use alpha transparency
compare_rows

Compare rows in a matrix
get_precision

Determine the precision of a number
histlines

Utility to create line-based histogram
crayons

Crayon colors
dotplot

Dot chart with a gray background
lenuniq

Number of unique values
grayplot

Scatterplot with a gray background
maxabs

maximum of absolute value
paste.

paste with dot separator
convert2hex

Convert decimal to hex
manyboxplot

Boxplot-like figure for many groups
hex2dec

Convert from hex to decimal
fac2num

Convert a factor to numeric
fisher

Fisher's exact test for a two-way table
excel_fig

Excel-style figure displaying contents of a matrix
make

Run make within a package directory
runningmean

Running mean, sum, or median
setRNGparallel

Set up random number generation for parallel calculations
simp

Numerical integration
rmvn

Simulate multivariate normal
paste00

paste with null or dot as separator and with collapse
runningratio

Running ratio
runningratio2

Running ratio with adaptive window
numbers

Numbers spelled out in English
jiggle

Jiggle points horizontally
myround

Round a number, preserving extra 0's
revgray

Create vector of colors from white to black
mypairs

My scatterplot matrix
exit

exit R without saving
objectsizes

Calculate sizes of all objects in workspace
plot_crayons

Illustration of crayon colors
grayplot_na

Scatterplot with missing values indicated
h

View html version of help file
revrainbow

Create vector of colors from blue to red
tritext

Plot text within a Holmans triangle
vec2string

Turn a vector into a single character string
xlimlabel

Calulate horizontal limit in user coordinates for adding labels
kbdate

My little date facility
venn

Plot to-scale Venn diagram
winsorize

Winsorize a vector
qqline2

qqline for qqplot
spell_out

Spell out an integer
paired.perm.test

Paired permutation t-test
openfile

Open a file
%nin%

Value matching
qr2

The QR decomposition of a matrix
perm.test

Permutation t-test
twocolorpal

Create vector of colors from blue to white to red
normalize

Quantile normalization
trigrid

Add grid lines to triplot
strwidth2lines

Calculate width of a character string in number of lines
trilines

Plot lines within a Holmans triangle
pick_more_precise

Pick the more precise value for each element in two related vectors
timeplot

Scatterplot with date/times on the x-axis
theme_karl

Karl's ggplot2 theme
time_axis

Set up a time-based axis
triarrow

Plot an arrow within a Holmans triangle
quantileSE

Sample quantiles and their standard errors
switchv

Vectorized version of switch
strwidth2xlim

Calculate horizontal limit in user coordinates for adding labels
triplot

Plot Holmans triangle
tripoints

Plot points within a Holmans triangle
attrnames

Get names of attributes
align_vectors

Align two vectors
add_commas

Add commas to a large number
bromanversion

Installed version of R/broman
arrowlocator

Use the locator function to plot an arrow
brocolors

Vectors of colors for figures
chisq

Chi-square test by simulation for a two-way table
ciplot

Effect plot with multiple CIs for different groups
cf

Compare objects, including missing data pattern