thomasWeise/utilizeR: An Utilities Package for R

Here we store some utilities shared by our other packages. One important export is the function \code{\link{ignoreErrors}(exp)} which executes the expression and ignores all errors or warnings. This is useful when dealing with expressions that maybe assign some result (like \code{\link{ignoreErrors}(result <- dodgyFunction())}) but may fail for reasons which can safely be ignored. Another useful utility is the \code{\link{path.batchApply}} which follows a visitor design pattern to (recursively) feed a supplied function with all files in a directory that fit to an (also supplied) regular expression. The result is returned as a list, much like the \code{\link{lapply}}, if wanted. \code{\link{path.batchApply}} can also automatically parallelize the computation by using \code{\link[parallel]{mclapply}} from the \code{parallel} package internally. This allows for a more convenient and automatic batch processing of data in folders. \code{\link{path.batchProcessor}} can create a wrapper for an input/ output- file-style processor to adapt it to the \code{\link{path.batchApply}} interface. The other functions like \code{\link{path.commonPrefix}}, \code{\link{path.extensionRegExp}}, and \code{\link{path.relativize}} also are building blocks that are used by and fit to the \code{\link{path.batchApply}} code. This library also includes some shared classes, such as \code{\link{functionOrNULL}} and \code{\link{numericOrNULL}}, which we use in some of our other classes to allow for members which can either be \code{NULL} or, well, a function or numeric vector.

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("thomasWeise/utilizeR")