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NCmisc (version 1.2.0)

Miscellaneous Functions for Creating Adaptive Functions and Scripts

Description

A set of handy functions. Includes a versatile one line progress bar, one line function timer with detailed output, time delay function, text histogram, object preview, CRAN package search, simpler package installer, Linux command install check, a flexible Mode function, top function, simulation of correlated data, and more.

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install.packages('NCmisc')

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1.2.0

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GPL (>= 2)

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Nicholas Cooper

Last Published

October 17th, 2022

Functions in NCmisc (1.2.0)

Create fake text for testing purposes

Print out comma separated list of values in X, truncating if many (good for error messages)

Simulate a correlated variable

Split a text file into multiple parts

exists.not.function

Does object exist ignoring functions The exists() function can tell you whether an object exists at all, or whether an object exists with a certain type, but it can be useful to know whether an object exists as genuine data (and not a function) which can be important when a variable or object is accidently or intentionally given the same name as a function. This function usually returns a logical value as to the existence of the object (ignoring functions) but can also be set to return the non-function type if the object exists.

Extend an interval by percentage

estimate.memory

Estimate the memory required for an object.

Obtain an index of all instances of values with duplicates (ordered)

Determine robustly whether a vector contains logical data

Determine whether a function can be applied to an S4 class/object

list.functions.in.file

Show all functions used in an R script file, by package

force.percentage

Force argument to be a percentage with length one

get.distinct.cols

Return up to 22 distinct colours.

Create variables from a list

check.linux.install

Check whether a given system command is installed (e.g, bash)

Function to add commas for large numbers

A good way to preview large lists.

Draw a scatterplot with a fit line

Determine robustly whether a vector contains numeric data

Easily display fraction and percentages

Creates a progess bar within a loop

must.use.package

Do everything possible to load an R package.

Summary of RAM footprint for all R objects in the current session. Not my function, but taken from an R-Help response by Elizabeth Purdom, at Berkeley. Simply applies the function 'object.size' to the objects in ls(). Also very similar to an example in the 'Help' for the utils::object.size() function.

Convert p-values to Z-scores

Force argument to be a numeric type with length one

Output variable states within functions/loops during testing/debugging

Output variable states within functions during testing/debugging

Posterior probability of association function

Find data thresholds corresponding to percentiles

Simulate a dataset with correlated measures

getRepositories

Detect all available R repositories.

Search all CRAN packages for those containing keyword(s).

Print a character a specified number of times.

Remove names from a named vector or list

Simple representation and retrieval of Date/Time

Remove leading and trailing spaces (or other character).

Print a vector with appropriate padding so each has equal char length.

packages.loaded

Check whether a set of packages has been loaded

Convert a numeric vector to Z-scores.

Return an object with missing values removed.

Select the nearest point in an array to a given value

Wrapper for the base table() function that includes zero counts - useful to get consistent dimensions across multiple runs with different responding patterns Forces a 2d table with every possible cell (allow zero counts) Only for tables where there are two vectors entered, while the base function allows for more, or also allows just 1. If the wrong arguments are entered, attempts to pass the input to the base version of 'table' instead.

Descriptive summary with SD/SE + improved formatting

Make an ascii histogram in the console.

Tidy display function for matrix objects

replace.missing.df

Iterate through numeric columns of a dataframe and replace missing with the mean

Times an expression, with breakdown of time spent in each function !DEPRECATED October 14, 2022!

Monitor CPU, RAM and Processes

Return a string with each first letter of each word in upper case.

Wait for a period of time.

summarise.r.datasets

Summarise the dimensions and type of available R example datasets

Return vector indexes of statistical univariate outliers

Convert Z-scores to p-values

Miscellaneous Functions for Creating Adaptive Functions and Scripts

Find the mode of a vector.

A more general dimension function

Unlist a list, starting only from a set depth.

Convert objects as arguments to object names

Print heading text with a border.

Create an index file for an R function file

Convert all possible columns of a data.frame to numeric

NCmisc-internal

Internal NCmisc Functions