akin-package: Functional Utilities For Data Processing

In akin: Functional Utilities for Data Processing

Functional Utilities For Data Processing

Description

The intent of this package is utilitarian which explains the relatively large number of informative messages displayed by most functions. Designed for large and very large data files, the package employs data.table, list environments, sparse matrices, iterators, and background processing in few places. Nevertheless, Users could try thread optimization, memoisation parallel processing, as these techniques were outside the scope.

The package covers several areas of data processing: subset reading and writing of large data files, data tiling (horizontal and vertical splitting) - suited for data conversion operations with local as well as global hold such as, one-hot encoding - stratified, proportional, random or probabilistic data sampling, data normalization and thresholding, substring location inside strings e.g. peptides inside protein chains, common substrings identification and location-tabulation of amino acids, modifications or their associated monoisotopic masses inside modified peptides covering various representations of protein mass spectrometry data with no pretense of exhaustiveness.

Comments and suggestions regarding tricky situations are provided however brief. Examples should be run individually in R console. When possible, suppression of messages should be avoided.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Dragos Bandur [e-mail]

Authors:

• Dragos Bandur [e-mail]

akin documentation built on May 19, 2026, 5:07 p.m.