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Miscellaneous Functions by 'Yihui Xie'
Miscellaneous functions commonly used in other packages maintained by 'Yihui Xie'.
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This package contains several utility functions that I frequently use in other packages, and also miscellaneous functions that I use by myself from time to time. For more information, see https://yihui.name/xfun/.
Functions in xfun
| Name | Description | |
| prose_index | Find the indices of lines in Markdown that are prose (not code blocks) | |
| file_string | Read a text file and concatenate the lines by '\n' | |
| numbers_to_words | Convert numbers to English words | |
| normalize_path | Normalize paths | |
| rstudio_type | Type a character vector into the RStudio source editor | |
| rev_check | Run R CMD check on the reverse dependencies of a package | |
| same_path | Test if two paths are the same after they are normalized | |
| protect_math | Protect math expressions in pairs of backticks in Markdown | |
| session_info | An alternative to sessionInfo() to print session information | |
| raw_string | Print a character vector in its raw form | |
| parse_only | Parse R code and do not keep the source | |
| is_ascii | Check if a character vector consists of entirely ASCII characters | |
| try_silent | Try to evaluate an expression silently | |
| native_encode | Try to use the system native encoding to represent a character vector | |
| strict_list | Strict lists | |
| optipng | Run OptiPNG on all PNG files under a directory | |
| is_windows | Test for types of operating systems | |
| pkg_attach | Attach or load packages, and automatically install missing packages if requested | |
| tojson | A simple JSON serializer | |
| read_utf8 | Read / write files encoded in UTF-8 | |
| file_ext | Manipulate filename extensions | |
| in_dir | Evaluate an expression under a specified working directory | |
| gsub_file | Search and replace strings in files | |
| download_file | Try various methods to download a file | |
| embed_file | Embed a file, multiple files, or directory on an HTML page | |
| install_dir | Install a source package from a directory | |
| isFALSE | Test if an object is identical to FALSE | |
| Rscript | Run the commands Rscript and R CMD | |
| attr | Obtain an attribute of an object without partial matching | |
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Vignettes of xfun
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| xfun.Rmd | ||
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| Type | Package |
| License | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL | https://github.com/yihui/xfun |
| BugReports | https://github.com/yihui/xfun/issues |
| Encoding | UTF-8 |
| LazyData | true |
| RoxygenNote | 6.1.0 |
| VignetteBuilder | knitr |
| NeedsCompilation | no |
| Packaged | 2018-10-23 16:51:26 UTC; yihui |
| Repository | CRAN |
| Date/Publication | 2018-10-23 17:10:02 UTC |
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