README.md

In superchordate/bc: My personal R package with functions I plan to use often.

bc

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("superchordate/bc")
require(bc)

Makes your coding life easier. Implements a number of shorthand and helpful functions I use often:

• api Get data from APIs.
• cat2bool Convert categorical columns in a dataset to boolean indicators, useful in modeling.
• cc Concatenate, shorthand for paste0 and paste with some functionality I prefer.
• clean Generic data-cleaning function. Right now, it just fixes column names ( remove NA, duplicate, etc. ).
• clean.vector Remove NA values and trims edge white-space.
• dict Get information about the columns in a dataset.
• nastrings Vector of strings that bc considers NA. Excel errors, NULL, NA, etc.
• notin val %ni% vector performs equivalent to ! val %in% vector but is a bit easier to type.
• r Generic function for reading in data. A work in progress - doesn't really work currently.
• runfolder Runs R scripts in a folder, provides runtime of the script, and opens the script if an error is found.
• sch Search a dataset or vector.
• spl Sample a dataset or vector.
• todate Convert a vector to date. Choose what to do with new NAs. Returns non-date vectors unchanged.
• tonum Convert a vector to number. Similar to todate.
• w Shortand write.csv function.
• vsel Select best variables to be used in a linear regression model based on my defined criteria. Best called after normalization and splitting categorical to boolean.

Use ?function name in R to view more detailed documentation.

Each of these is a work in progress. Pull requests are welcome.

Many of these functions share names and functionality with functions I have built for Oliver Wyman. This is because these are useful names and commonly-used operations, not because I have copied them from my work there. As you can see in the commit history, each of these functions has been built from scratch on my personal time and with my personal computer.

superchordate/bc documentation built on June 20, 2019, 4:05 p.m.