Package: R.utils 2.12.3

R.utils: Various Programming Utilities

Utility functions useful when programming and developing R packages.

Authors:Henrik Bengtsson [aut, cre, cph]

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# Install 'R.utils' in R:

install.packages('R.utils', repos = c('https://henrikbengtsson.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/henrikbengtsson/r.utils/issues

Pkgdown site:https://henrikbengtsson.github.io

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Help page	Topics
Package R.utils	R.utils-package R.utils
Modifies .Last() to call 'finalizeSession()	addFinalizerToLast addFinalizerToLast.default
Static class to validate and process arguments	Arguments
The Assert class	Assert
Assigns an objects elements locally	attachLocally attachLocally.data.frame attachLocally.environment attachLocally.list
Call hook functions by hook name	callHooks callHooks.default
Call hook functions	callHooks.function callHooks.list
Capitalizes/decapitalizes each character string in a vector	capitalize capitalize.default decapitalize decapitalize.default
Evaluate an R expression and captures the output	captureOutput
Simple access to parsed command-line arguments	cmdArg cmdArgs
Creates a vector of column classes used for tabular reading	colClasses colClasses.default
Compressing and decompressing files	bunzip2 bunzip2.default bzip2 bzip2.default compressFile compressFile.default decompressFile decompressFile.default gunzip gunzip.default gzip gzip.default isBzipped isBzipped.default isCompressedFile isCompressedFile.default isGzipped isGzipped.default
Compresses a PDF (into a new PDF)	compressPDF compressPDF.default
Copies a directory	copyDirectory copyDirectory.default
Counts the number of lines in a text file	countLines countLines.default
Creates a file atomically	createFileAtomically createFileAtomically.default
Creates a link to a file or a directory	createLink createLink.default
Creates a Microsoft Windows Shortcut (.lnk file)	createWindowsShortcut createWindowsShortcut.default
Allocates a data frame with given column classes	dataFrame dataFrame.default
Detaches packages by name	detachPackage detachPackage.default
Sets the dimension of an object with the option to infer one dimension automatically	dimNA< - dimNA< -.default dimNA<- dimNA<-.default
Displays the contents of a text file with line numbers and more	displayCode displayCode.default
Executes a function call with option to ignore unused arguments	doCall doCall.default
Downloads a file	downloadFile downloadFile.character
Global substitute of expression using regular expressions	egsub
Creates a new environment, evaluates an expression therein, and returns the environment	env
Extract a subset of an array, matrix or a vector with unknown dimensions	extract.array extract.default extract.matrix
Checks the permission of a file or a directory	fileAccess fileAccess.default
Construct the path to a file from components and expands Windows Shortcuts along the pathname from root to leaf	filePath filePath.default
A progress bar that sets the size of a file accordingly	FileProgressBar
Function to call for finalizing the R session	finalizeSession finalizeSession.default
Finds all 'srcfile' objects generated by source() in all call frames	findSourceTraceback findSourceTraceback.default
Converts a binary/octal/hexadecimal number into a string	as.character.binmode format.binmode
Parses, evaluates and outputs a GString	gcat gcat.default gcat.GString
Identifies and removes DLLs of packages already unloaded	gcDLLs strayDLLs
Gets the absolute pathname string	getAbsolutePath getAbsolutePath.default
Gets the string of the parent specified by this pathname	getParent getParent.default
Gets the relative pathname relative to a directory	getRelativePath getRelativePath.default
Parses and evaluates a GString into a regular string	gstring gstring.default gstring.GString
Character string with advanced substitutions	GString
Checks if one or several pathnames has a URL protocol	hasUrlProtocol hasUrlProtocol.default
Concatenating vectors into human-readable strings	hpaste hpaste.default
Checks if a set of values are inside one or more intervals	inAnyInterval.numeric
Insert values to a vector at certain positions	insert insert.default
Install R packages by name or URL	installPackages installPackages.default
Generates a vector of indices from a matrix of intervals	intervalsToSeq.matrix
Converts an integer to a binary/octal/hexadecimal number	intToBin intToHex intToOct
Checks if this pathname is absolute	isAbsolutePath isAbsolutePath.default
Checks if the file specification is a directory	isDirectory isDirectory.default
Checks if the current file position for a connection is at the 'End of File'	isEof.connection
Checks if the file specification is a file	isFile isFile.default
Checks if there is an open connection to a file	isOpen.character
Checks if a package is installed or not	isPackageInstalled isPackageInstalled.default
Checks if a package is loaded or not	isPackageLoaded isPackageLoaded.default
Identifies all entries with replicated values	isReplicated replicates
Identifies all entries that exists exactly once	isSingle singles
Checks if one or several pathnames is URLs	isUrl isUrl.default
Checks if a value is (close to) zero or not	isZero isZero.default
Static class for Java related methods	Java
Gets the time when the file was last modified	lastModified lastModified.default
The LComments class	LComments
Gets the file names in the directory	listDirectory listDirectory.default
Method to load object from a file or a connection	loadObject loadObject.default
Maps values to intervals	mapToIntervals.numeric
Merges intervals	mergeIntervals.numeric
Creates a directory including any necessary but nonexistent parent directories	mkdirs mkdirs.default
Miscellaneous functions for outputting via message()	ccat cmsg cout cprint cprintf cshow cstr mcat mout mprint mprintf mshow mstr
A \"pager\" function that outputs to standard error	mpager
Gets the pathname or a connection to the NULL device on the current platform	nullcon nullfile
A Verbose class ignoring everything	NullVerbose
Registers a function to be called when the R garbage collector is (detected to be) running	onGarbageCollect onGarbageCollect.default
Registers a function to be called when the R session finishes	onSessionExit onSessionExit.default
The Options class	Options
Patches installed and loaded packages and more	patchCode patchCode.default
Drops a backup suffix from the backup pathname	popBackupFile popBackupFile.default
Drops a temporary suffix from the temporary pathname	popTemporaryFile popTemporaryFile.default
C-style formatted output	printf printf.default
Provides text based counting progress bar	ProgressBar
Appends a backup suffix to the pathname	pushBackupFile pushBackupFile.default
Appends a temporary suffix to the pathname	pushTemporaryFile pushTemporaryFile.default
Gets the on R CMD check if the current R session was launched by it	queryRCmdCheck
Reads binary data from disjoint sections of a connection or a file	readBinFragments readBinFragments.default
Reads one or more Rd help files in a certain format	readRdHelp readRdHelp.default
Reads a file in table format	readTable readTable.default
Reads a single column from file in table format	readTableIndex readTableIndex.default
Reads a Microsoft Windows Shortcut (.lnk file)	readWindowsShortcut readWindowsShortcut.default
Removes a directory	removeDirectory removeDirectory.default
Sample values from a set of elements	resample resample.default
Saves an object to a file or a connection	saveObject saveObject.default
Gets a short human readable string representation of an vector of indices	seqToHumanReadable seqToHumanReadable.default
Gets all contiguous intervals of a vector of indices	seqToIntervals seqToIntervals.default
Sets a option in R	setOption setOption.default
Class for applicational settings	Settings
Open a file or URL using Windows File Associations	shell.exec2
Abstract class SmartComments	SmartComments
Sources files recursively to either local or global environment	sourceDirectory sourceDirectory.default
Parses and evaluates code from a file or a connection	sourceTo sourceTo.default
Splits a single character string by pattern	splitByPattern splitByPattern.default
Writes text in the margin along the sides of a plot	stext stext.default
Creates a grid of subplots	subplots subplots.default
Static class to query information about the system	System
Launches another R process from within R	systemR systemR.default
A status bar at the R prompt that can be updated	TextStatusBar
TimeoutException represents timeout errors	TimeoutException
Updates the timestamp of a file	touchFile touchFile.default
Converts a pathname into a URL	toUrl toUrl.default
Unwrap an array, matrix or a vector to an array of more dimensions	unwrap.array unwrap.data.frame unwrap.default unwrap.matrix
Sets package repositories	parseRepos useRepos
The VComments class	VComments
Class to writing verbose messages to a connection or file	Verbose
Evaluates an expression and captures the code and/or the output	evalCapture withCapture
Evaluate an R expression with locale set temporarily	withLocale
Evaluate an R expression with options set temporarily	withOptions
Evaluate an R expression with repositories set temporarily	withRepos
Evaluate an R expression with a temporarily set random set	withSeed
Evaluate an R expression while temporarily diverting output	withSink
Evaluate an R expression and interrupts it if it takes too long	withTimeout
Reshape an array or a matrix by permuting and/or joining dimensions	wrap.array wrap.data.frame wrap.matrix
Writes binary data to disjoint sections of a connection or a file	writeBinFragments writeBinFragments.default
Writes a data.frame to tabular text file	writeDataFrame writeDataFrame.data.frame