NEWS.md

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BBmisc 1.13.2

• test: fixed printStrToChar() test for changed str() output in R-devel.

BBmisc 1.13.1

• feat: added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• docs: added title and description tags.
• docs: fixed descriptions of functions.
• refactor: use anyNA() instead of any(is.na(.)).
• test: fixed requirePackages() tests.

BBmisc 1.13

• Updated DESCRIPTION.
• Fixed documentation of makeProgressBar() and makeSimpleFileLogger().
• Fixed usage of a C code macro in getMaxIndex().

BBmisc 1.12:

• getMaxIndex, getMinIndex, getBestIndex, getMaxIndexOfRows, getMinIndexOfRows, getMaxIndexOfCols, getMinIndexOfCols: added new arg 'weights'
• optimizeSubInts: fixed a bug where not enough subints where visited
• computeMode: internally uses data.table now and is therefore much faster
• Changed default from default.stringsAsFactors() to NULL in convertListOfRowsToDataFrame().

BBmisc 1.11

• convertToShortString now also prints the content of expressions, and prints NULL like
• The function checkArg is superseded by the package checkmate. Please use checkmate instead.
• ensureVector now can be passed multiple classes via cl parameter

• New argument ensure.list for ensureVector

• new functions

• printHead
• getBestIndex

BBmisc 1.10

• New argument min.versions for requirePackages

BBmisc 1.9

• New argument .newline for messagef
• requirePackages can now dispatch to requireNamespace and has argument default.method.

• normalize now also handles NAs

• new functions

• mapValues

BBmisc 1.8

• Options for the ProgressBar can now be directly passed to the constructor.

• Fixed smaller bugs in normalize

• new functions

• itostr
• getRelativePath
• splitPath
• do.call2

BBmisc 1.7

• extractSubList allows for repeated indexing

• new functions:

• asQuoted
• collapsef
• ensureVector
• explode
• getAttributeNames
• getClass1
• getUsedFactorLevels
• hasAttributes
• isSubset, isSuperset
• makeFileCache
• normalize
• setValue
• optimizeSubInts

BBmisc 1.6

• the ProgressBar now outputs to stderr by default. But the stream can be configured.
• improve handling of result names (row.names and col.names) in some functions a bit
• convertRowsToList now converts matrices into list of vector by default (see new arg "as.vector")
• rename first, last to which.first, which.last
• improved extractSubList and rowSapply a bit, simplification to matrix can be stated in a more readable way.
• new functions:
• operator %btwn%.
• convertListOfRowsToDataFrame
• convertMatrixType
• convertColsToList
• v*apply type of functions
• dapply
• rangeVal
• getFirst, getLast
• symdiff
• asMatrixCols, asMatrixRows
• isScalar family of helper functions
• sortByCol

BBmisc 1.5

• removed stringsAsFactors, use convertDataFrameCols
• removed convertDfCols, use convertDataFrameCols
• removed listToShortString, use convertToShortString
• new functions:
• dropNamed
• first, last
• binPack
• isValidName

BBmisc 1.4

• renamed convertDfCols to convertDataFrameCols
• deprecated listToShortString, use convertToShortString
• deprecated stringsAsFactors, use convertDataFrameCols
• chunk distributes size of chunks in a better way
• new functions:
• makeS3Obj
• getMaxIndex, getMinIndex
• getMaxIndexOfRows, getMinIndexOfRows, getMaxIndexOfCols, getMinIndexOfCols
• toRangeStr
• getOperatingSystem, isWindows, isUnix, isLinux, isDarwin
• clipString
• getUnixTime
• isScalarValue
• makeDataFrame
• convertToShortString
• convertRowsToList

BBmisc 1.3*64

• removed parallelMap et al., this is now hosted in an extra package at: https://github.com/berndbischl/parallelMap
• bugfix for checkArg, lower/upper only checked first element
• exta argument "missing.val" for names2
• extra argument "logicals.as.factor" for convertDFCols
• some speed improvements for convertDFCols and notin
• is.error also works now for objects of class "error" and not only "try*error"
• new functions:
• isDirectory
• rowLapply, rowSapply
• setAttribute
• seq_row, seq_col
• strrepeat
• makeSimpleFileLogger
• isScalarNA
• pause
• printStrToChar

BBmisc 1.2*200

• checkArg can now test whether arg is one of multiple classes (OR disjunctive)
• bug fix: cpus setting was not properly respected in multicore mode
• bug fix: warnings where not turned into errors with warningf and option(warn=2)
• some minor bug fixes
• parallelMap: switched multicore mode to package parallel
• new functions
• lib
• argsAsNamedList
• names2
• convertDfCols

BBmisc 1.1*166

• some small fixes and added arguments
• new functions:
• setRowNames, setColNames
• setClasses, addClasses
• isFALSE
• lsort
• computeMode

BBmisc 1.1*132

• removed regmatches dependency

BBmisc 1.1*125

• removed stringr dependency
• new interface for ProgressBar and more therefore more functionality
• some global options for progressbar behaviour
• options immediate and warning.length for warningf
• checkListElementClass now first checks that argument is a list
• nin (notin) operator
• parallelMap function, can delegate to multicore or snowfall
• stringsAsFactors
• system3
• load2

BBmisc 1.0*77

• removed calls to .Internal
• more examples
• fixed a bug in checkArg
• makeProgressbar: new option 'inc' to increment
• stopf: new option warning.length
• more options for requirePackages
• new functions: chunk, isExpensiveExampleOk

BBmisc 1.0*58

• First submit to CRAN.

BBmisc documentation built on Nov. 6, 2026, 1:06 a.m.