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NCmisc (version 1.3.1)

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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1.3.1

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Nicholas Cooper

Last Published

February 19th, 2026

Functions in NCmisc (1.3.1)

Print heading text with a border.

Creates a progess bar within a loop

Convert a numeric vector to Z-scores.

summarise.r.datasets

Summarise the dimensions and type of available R example datasets

Draw a scatterplot with a fit line

Easily display fraction and percentages

Simulate a dataset with correlated measures

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

Convert p-values to Z-scores

Extend an interval by percentage

Make an ascii histogram in the console.

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

force.percentage

Force argument to be a percentage with length one

Function to add commas for large numbers

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

Wait for a period of time.

Find the mode of a vector.

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

NCmisc-internal

Internal NCmisc Functions

Simulate a correlated variable

list.functions.in.file

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

A good way to preview large lists.

Return vector indexes of statistical univariate outliers

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.

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.

Output variable states within functions during testing/debugging

Descriptive summary with SD/SE + improved formatting

Output variable states within functions/loops during testing/debugging

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

Force argument to be a numeric type with length one

packages.loaded

Check whether a set of packages has been loaded

Find data thresholds corresponding to percentiles

Posterior probability of association function

Tidy display function for matrix objects

Create variables from a list

replace.missing.df

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

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

Monitor CPU, RAM and Processes

Remove leading and trailing spaces (or other character).

Select the nearest point in an array to a given value

Remove names from a named vector or list

Return an object with missing values removed.

Print a character a specified number of times.

Simple representation and retrieval of Date/Time

Convert all possible columns of a data.frame to numeric

Unlist a list, starting only from a set depth.

Miscellaneous Functions for Creating Adaptive Functions and Scripts

Create an index file for an R function file

Convert objects as arguments to object names

A more general dimension function

Convert Z-scores to p-values

Create fake text for testing purposes

Split a text file into multiple parts

check.linux.install

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

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

get.distinct.cols

Return up to 22 distinct colours.

getRepositories

Detect all available R repositories.

Determine robustly whether a vector contains logical data

estimate.memory

Estimate the memory required for an object.

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.

Determine robustly whether a vector contains numeric data