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BBmisc

Miscellaneous helper functions for and from B. Bischl and some other guys at TU Dortmund, mainly for package development.

Offical CRAN release site: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/BBmisc/index.html
R Documentation in HTML: http://berndbischl.github.io/BBmisc/man
Run this in R to install the current GitHub version:
```
devtools::install_github("berndbischl/BBmisc")
```
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install.packages('BBmisc')

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1.13.2

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https://github.com/berndbischl/BBmisc

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Bernd Bischl

Last Published

November 5th, 2026

Functions in BBmisc (1.13.2)

Drop named elements of an object

Execute a function call similar to do.call

convertIntegers

Conversion for integer vector

Current time in seconds

Is given argument an atomic vector or factor of length 1?

convertToShortString

Converts any R object to a descriptive string so it can be used in messages

convertRowsToList

Convert rows (columns) of data.frame or matrix to lists

Insert elements from one list/vector into another list/vector

Conversion for single integer

Is return value of try an exception?

getRelativePath

Construct a path relative to another

Wrapper for class(x)[1]

Convert Integers to Strings

Create named list, possibly initialized with a certain element

Wrapper for message and sprintf

A wrapper for library

isEmptyDirectory

Is one / are several directories empty?

Is one / are several files a directory?

Simple constructor for S3 objects based on lists

Check subset relation on two vectors

makeProgressBar

Create a progress bar with estimated time

getUsedFactorLevels

Determines used factor levels

Calculate range statistic

getOperatingSystem

Functions to determine the operating system

getMaxIndexOfRows

Find row- or columnwise the index of the maximal / minimal element in a matrix

Set a list element to a new value

Sort the rows of a data.frame according to one or more columns

Extracts a named element from a list of lists

Filter a list for NULL values

convertListOfRowsToDataFrame

Convert a list of row-vector of equal structure to a data.frame

isProperlyNamed

Are all elements of a list / vector uniquely named?

convertMatrixType

Converts storage type of a matrix

Checks whether an object is a scalar NA value

Check if given object has certain attributes

requirePackages

Require some packages

Convert a numerical vector into a range string

Split a path into components

A caching wrapper around load2

Replacement for names which always returns a vector

Return index of maximal/minimal/best element in numerical vector

isExpensiveExampleOk

Conditional checking for expensive examples

Get the first/last element of a list/vector

Shortens strings to a given length

Returns first non-missing, non-null argument

Split up a string into substrings

Blow up single scalars / objects to vectors / list by replication

A wrapper for identical(x, FALSE)

Check superset relation on two vectors

Can some strings be used for column or list element names without problems?

Load RData file and return objects in it

A wrapper for sort to sort using the “C” collating rules

Normalizes numeric data to a given scale

Simply a negated in operator

Generate sequences along rows or cols

A wrapper for class(x) = classes

A wrapper for attr(x, which) = y

Wrapper for rownames(x) = y, colnames(x) = y

Find the index of first/last TRUE value in a logical vector

Print str(x) of an object to a string / character vector

Split seconds into handy chunks of time

Wrapper for system2 with better return type and errorhandling

Prints object to a string / character vector

Calculates symmetric set difference between two sets

More meaningful head(df) output

Suppresses all output except for errors

Pause in interactive mode and continue on <Enter>.

Initialize data.frame in a convenient way

optimizeSubInts

Naive multi-start version of optimize for global optimization

Apply a function with a predefined return value

Wrapper for warning and sprintf

makeSimpleFileLogger

Simple logger which outputs to a file

Replace values in atomic vectors

Repeat and join a string

Wrapper for stop and sprintf

Save multiple objects to a file

Apply function to rows of a data frame

capitalizeStrings

Capitalize strings in a vector

Combine multiple factors and return a factor

Wrapper for cat and sprintf

checkListElementClass

Check that a list contains only elements of a required type

Call lapply on an object and return a data.frame

Collapse vector to string

Check for a function argument

Chunk elements of vectors into blocks of nearly equal size

A wrapper to add to the class attribute

argsAsNamedList

Parses ... arguments to a named list

Collapse vector to string

Deprecated function. Do not use!

Simple bin packing

Check if some values are covered by the range of the values in a second vector

Extracts a named element from a list of lists

Converts a string into a quoted expression

Compute statistical mode of a vector (value that occurs most frequently)

convertDataFrameCols

Converts columns in a data frame to characters, factors or numerics

getAttributeNames

Helper function for determining the vector of attribute names of a given object