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The R package sfsmisc has finally made it into a revision control system, and the fad of the day being git & github, so be it!

sfsmisc has been on CRAN for a very long time, and containing R code that is up to 17.5 years old. (See on how I got this into github, including parts of the long history.)

It is a collection of "goodies" as we used to call these nice utility functions. Whereas the package has been written and maintained by Martin Maechler, really there are quite a few more members of the SfS (Seminar fuer Statistik at ETH Zurich) who have authored some of the functions or contributed to them.

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Useful utilities 'goodies' from Seminar fuer Statistik ETH Zurich, quite a few related to graphics; many ported from S-plus times.

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install.packages('sfsmisc')

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1.1-26

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GPL (>= 2)

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https://github.com/mmaechler/sfsmisc

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Martin Maechler

Last Published

September 20th, 2026

Functions in sfsmisc (1.1-26)

Extended / Engineering Axis for Graphics

Matrix Scaling Utilities

Compact Representation of Binary, 0/1 Values

Compute Radially Equispaced Points on Ellipse

Prime Factorization of Integers

Compact Numeric Formatting

Robust F-Test: Wald test for multiple coefficients of rlm() Object

Scatter Plot with Error Bars

help() Type="pdf" and View It

iterate.lin.recursion

Generate Sequence Iterating a Linear Recursion

Test Whether a Vector or Array Consists of Whole Numbers

Plot Confidence or Prediction Hyperbolas around a Regression Line

Get Last Elements of a Vector

Automatically Named list()

Empty Dimnames of an Array

Hat Matrix of a Smoother

Inverse seq() -- Short Expression for Index Vector

Plot a Histogram and a Boxplot

Cheap Numerical Integration through Data Points

Plot 'Datum' (deutsch!) unten rechts

Prettified Arrows Plots

Convert "Round" Integers to Short Strings and Back

Generate Sequences, Equidistant on Log Scale

Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common Multiple

Graphical Interactive Demo of loess()

List-like Environment of Functions (and More)

Number of Sign Changes in Sequence

Name Plot: Names or Numbers instead of Points in Plot

Find the Nearest Proper Correlation Matrix

Has a Formal Argument been Set or is it Missing?

Produce LaTeX commands to print a matrix

Plot Setup for MULTiple FIGures, incl. Main Title

Simple Matrix Plots

Stahel's Residual Plot against 2 X's

Draw Symbol on a Plot

plot.ts with multi-plots and Auto-Title -- on 1 page

Add a Horizontal Boxplot to the Current Plot

Plot Parametric Density Functions

Plot Numeric (e.g. Residuals) vs 2 Factors Using Boxplots

Conversion between plotting scales: usr, cm, symbol

Utility for 'Showing' S vectors

Version of packageDescription() as Simple Vector

p.profileTraces

Plot a profile.nls Object With Profile Traces

Plot Data and Smoother / Fitted Values

Plot a Step Function

Close PostScript or Acrobat Graphics Device opened by 'ps.do' / 'pdf.do'

Utility Printing in DEBUG mode

Fisher's Potato Crop Data

Add and Print Marginals for 2-way Contingency Tables

Nice 10 ** k Label Expressions

Find all Primes Less Than n

Give the Quadrant Number of Planar Points

Make Simple String from Repeating a Character, e.g. Blank String

Evaluate Polynomials

Robust Range using Boxplot 'Quartiles'

Sequence Covering the Range of X, including X

Find a Close Positive Definite Matrix

Generalized Rot13 Character Translation (Rotation)

Read.table for an Emacs Org Table

PostScript/PDF Preview Device with Optional ‘LaTeX’ Touch

Relative Error When Appropriate, Absolute Otherwise

Round to Integer Keeping the Sum Fixed

Rotate Planar Points by Angle

sfsmisc-defunct

Defunct Functions in Package sfsmisc

toLatex.numeric

LaTeX or Sweave friendly Formatting of Numbers

A Reversable Version of unique()

Extended Information About the Current R Session

u.Datumvonheute

Datum und Uhrzeit (auf deutsch)

Short R Version String

Rounding to Significant Digits

(Anti)Symmetric Log High-Transform

Return Date[-Time] String in 'European' Format

'Portable' assign / get functions (R / S-plus) for 'Frame 0'

Convert “Numeric” Dates

Source and Attach an R source file

GUI Density Estimation using Tcl/Tk

More simplification in tapply() result

'Portable' System function (R / S-plus)

Paste Utilities -- Concatenate Strings

Nice Uniform Points in Interval

Produce Regular Grid Matrix

Uniqify (X,Y) Values using Weights

Enhance Formula by Wrapping each Term, e.g., by "s(.)"

Utility Returning x-Coordinates of Boxplot

Overview on All Datasets in an R Package

Tukey-Anscombe Plot (Residual vs. Fitted) of a Linear Model

capture.and.write

Capture output and Write / Print First and Last Parts

Counting-Generalization of duplicated()

Numerical Derivatives of (x,y) Data via Smoothing Splines

Quasi Randum Numbers via Halton Sequences

Plot Empirical Distribution Function With 95% Confidence Curves

Cairo PDF Graphics Device useful for Sweave

Deprecated 'sfsmisc' Functions

Numerical Derivatives of (x,y) Data (via Smoothing Splines)

Character to and from Integer Codes Conversion

Plot Components + Residuals for Two Factors

Digit/Bit Representation of Integers in any Base

Axis Ticks Expressions in Nice 10 ** k Form

Approximate Critical Values for Kolmogorov-Smirnov's D

The “Other” Diagonal Matrix

Kumulative Verteilung Aufzeichnen

Diagonal Discriminant Analysis