R/tools.r

In skranz/shinyQuiz: Quiz widget for shiny events apps

copy.into.missing.fields = function(dest, source) {
  restore.point("copy.into.empty.fields")

  new.fields = setdiff(names(source), names(dest))
  dest[new.fields] = source[new.fields]
  dest
}


colored.html = function(txt, color="blue") {
  if (is.null(color)) return(txt)
  paste0("<font color='",color,"'>",txt,"</font>")
}

# mark the encoding of character vectors as UTF-8
mark_utf8 <- function(x) {
  if (is.character(x)) {
    Encoding(x) <- 'UTF-8'
    return(x)
  }
  if (!is.list(x)) return(x)
  attrs <- attributes(x)
  res <- lapply(x, mark_utf8)
  attributes(res) <- attrs
  res
}