mvbutils.utils {mvbutils} | R Documentation |
Miscellaneous utilities.
as.cat( x) clip( x, n=1) cq( ...) deparse.names.parsably( x) empty.data.frame( ...) exists.mvb( x, pos = -1, envir = pos.to.env(pos), frame, mode = "any", inherits = FALSE) expanded.call( nlocal=sys.parent()) find.funs(pos=1, ..., exclude.mcache = TRUE, mode="function") index( lvector) is.dir( dir) legal.filename( name) lsall( ...) lib.pos() # used only to hack 'library' masked( pos) masking( pos=1) mkdir( dirlist) my.all.equal( x, y) named( x) option.or.default( opt.name, default=NULL) pos( substrs, mainstrs, any.case = FALSE, names.for.output) ## S3 method for class 'cat': print( x, ...) # print.cat ## S3 method for class 'nullprint': print( x, ...) # print.nullprint put.in.session( ...) returnList( ...) safe.rbind( df1, df2) to.regexpr( x) yes.no( prompt, default)
x, y, n, ..., exclude.mcache, nlocal, lvector, dir, name, pos, envir, frame, mode, inherits, dirlist, opt.name, default, substrs, mainstrs, any.case, names.for.output, df1, df2, prompt |
see "Arguments by function" |
as.cat
makes a character vector print as if it was cat
ted rather than print
ed.
clip
removes the last n
elements of x
.
cq
is handy for typing cq( alpha, beta, gamma)
instead of cq( "alpha", "beta", "gamma")
. Certain strings DO still require quotes around them, e.g. cq( "NULL", "1-2")
).
deparse.names.parsably
is like deparse
except that name
objects get wrapped in a call to as.name
, so that they won't be evaluated accidentally.
empty.data.frame
creates a template data frame with 0 rows but with all columns of the appropriate type. Useful for rbind
ing to later– see also safe.rbind
.
exists.mvb
is pretty much like exists
but has a pos
rather than a where
argument.
find.funs
finds "function" objects (or objects of other modes, via the "mode" arg) in one or more environments, optionally matching a pattern.
expanded.call
returns the full argument list available to its caller, including defaults where arguments were not set explicitly. The arguments may not be those originally passed, if they were modified before the invocation of expanded.call
. Default arguments which depend on calculations after the invocation of expanded.call
will lead to an error.
index
returns the position(s) of TRUE elements. Unlike which
: attributes are lost; NA elements map to NAs; index(<<length 0 object>>)
is numeric(0)
; index( <<non-logical>>)
is NA.
is.dir
tests for directoriness.
legal.filename
coerces its character argument into a similar-looking string that is a legal filename on any (?) system.
lib.pos
is used by mvbutils
in hacking library
, to make sure packages get attached below ROOT task. You'll probably never need to call this directly.
lsall
is like ls
but coerces all.names=TRUE
.
masked
checks which objects in search()[pos]
are masked by identically-named objects higher in the search path. masking
checks for objects mask identically-named objects lower in the search path. Namespaces may make the results irrelevant.
mkdir
makes directories; unlike dir.create
, it can do several levels at once.
my.all.equal
is like all.equal
, except that it returns FALSE in cases where all.equal
returns a non-logical-mode result.
named(x)
is just names(x) <- as.character( x); x
; useful for lapply
etc.
option.or.default
returns the named option value if it exists, otherwise the supplied default. Obsolete in R2.10; use getOption( ..., default=...)
instead.
pos
is probably to be eschewed in new code, in favour of gregexpr
with fixed=TRUE
, which is likely faster. (And I should rewrite it to use gregexpr
.) It's one of a few legacy functions in mvbutils
that pre-date improvements in base R. pos
will either search for several literal patterns in a single target, or vice versa- not both. It returns a matrix showing the positions of the matching substrings, with as many columns as the maximum number of matches. 0 signifies "no match"; there is always at least one column even if there are no matches at all.
print
: if class(x)=="cat"
, the character vector x
will be print
ed by cat(x,sep="\n")
. If class(x)=="nullprint"
, then print(x)
will not print anything.
returnList
returns a list corresponding to old-style (pre-R 1.8) return
syntax. Briefly: a single argument is returned as itself. Multiple arguments are returned in a list. The names of that list are the argument names if provided; or, for any unnamed argument that is just a symbolic name, that symbolic name; or no name at all, for other unnamed arguments. You can duplicate pre-1.8 behaviour of return(...)
via return(returnList(...))
.
safe.rbind
mimics rbind
, but works round an R bug (I reckon) where a column appears to be a numeric in one data.frame
but a factor in the other.
to.regexpr
converts literal strings to their equivalent regexps, e.g. by doubling backslashes. Useful if you want "fixed=TRUE" to apply only to a portion of your regexp.
yes.no
cat
s its "prompt" argument and waits for user input. if the user input pmatch
es "yes" or "YES", then yes.no
returns TRUE
; if the input pmatch
es no
or NO
then yes.no
returns FALSE
; if the input is ” and default
is set, then yes.no
returns default
; otherwise it repeats the question. You probably want to put a space at the end of prompt
.
as.cat |
character vector of class cat |
clip |
vector of the same mode as x |
cq |
character vector |
empty.data.frame |
data.frame |
expanded.call |
a call object |
find.funs |
a character vector of function names |
is.dir |
logical vector |
is.nonzero |
TRUE or FALSE |
legal.filename |
character( 1) |
masked |
character vector |
masking |
character vector |
mkdir |
logical vector of success/failure |
named |
vector of the same mode as x |
option.or.default |
option's value |
pos |
numeric matrix, one column per match found plus one; at least one column guaranteed |
returnList |
list or single object |
safe.rbind |
data.frame |
to.regexpr |
character |
yes.no |
TRUE or FALSE |
cat( x, sep="\n")
x
substitute
d and then concatenateddeparse
- name
objects treated speciallyexists
mlocal
.objects
. Usually just "pattern" for regexp searches.mlazy
objectsls
, except that all.names
will be coerced to TRUEnames
attributeoption
called "opt.name"
substrs
in.print
(ignored)assign
ed into the mvb.session.info
search environmentreturn
before R 1.8.data.frame
or list
Mark Bravington
clip( 1:5, 2) # 1:3 cq( alpha, beta) # c( "alpha", "beta") empty.data.frame( a=1, b="yes") # data.frame with 0 rows of columns "a" (numeric) and # "b" (a factor with levels ""yes"") f <- function( a=9, b) expanded.call(); f( 3, 4) # list( a=3, b=4) find.funs( "package:base", patt="an") # "transform" etc. is.dir( getwd()) # TRUE legal.filename( "a:b\\c/d&f") # "a.b.c.d&f" sapply( named( cq( alpha, beta)), nchar) # c( alpha=5, beta=4) option.or.default( "my.option", 5) # probably 5 pos( cq( quick, lazy), "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog") # matrix( c( 5, 37), nrow=2) pos( "quick", c( "first quick", "second quick quick", "third")) # matrix( c( 7,8,0, 0,14,0), nrow=3) pos( "quick", "slow") # matrix( 0) f <- function() { a <- 9; return( returnList( a, a*a, a2=a+a)) } f() # list( a=9, 81, a2=18) levels( rbind( data.frame( x=1), data.frame( x="cat"))$x) # NULL, because "x" acquires mode "character"; a bug, I think levels( safe.rbind( data.frame( x=1), data.frame( x="cat"))$x) # c( "1", "cat") to.regexpr( "a{{") # "a\\{\\{" ## Not run: mkdir( "subdirectory.of.getwd") yes.no( "OK (Y/N)? ") masking( 1) masked( 5) ## End(Not run)