thisutils

Provides reusable building blocks for research packages across matrix representation, numerical computation, neighborhood evaluation, controlled execution, and runtime interoperability. Core tools preserve declared sparse semantics, expose dense-memory and output boundaries, standardize neighborhood and classification results, and align serial and parallel result and error behavior. Additional helpers support structured messages, optional dependency checks, and common statistical workflows.

Releases

16

Needs compilation

Yes

Needs R

>= 4.1.0

Config/Needs/website

mengxu98/thistemplate

Config/roxygen2/version

8.1.0

Config/testthat/edition

3

Date

2026-10-28

Language

en-US

RoxygenNote

8.1.1

• Textbook and course datasets

Since March 2026

• callr
• cli
• Matrix
• methods
• mgcv
• pak
• parallel
• ps
• Rcpp
• rlang
• splines
• stats
• utils

Installing it adds

9 packages, 7.6 MB of source

Of those, need compilation

6

• BiocNeighbors
• knitr
• remotes
• rmarkdown
• testthat

Lines by kind (17,492)

Lines by language

Languages are counted from file extensions.

Files

131

R functions

165

Compiled functions

46

Object systems

S3: 4 methods

Median

4

Mean

6.15

Highest

61

Median lines per function

22

R functions

165

Calls

175

Unconnected

25

Groups

7

Lines counted

4,724

Lines the tests ran

3,140

Tests passed

Yes

Measured with

covr 3.6.5 on R 4.6.1

Has tests

Yes

Test frameworks

testthat

Test cases

274

Lines of tests

4,072

Test lines per line of code

0.49

• Research-package workflow boundaries with thisutils
• Semantics-aware sparse research workflows

README

Yes, 88 words

Release notes file

Yes

Help pages

64

Lines of documentation

2,625

Commits

140

Open pull requests

0

Tagged releases

0

Latest tagged release

–

Issues closed in

59 days (median)

Pull requests closed in

0 days (median)

Pull requests merged

93%

Created

1 Jun 2025

Licence file reads as

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Method, repository practices

Across mengxu98

• feat:
• Add fit_trends() for GAM and PreTSA feature trends. Statistics include fit scores, peak and valley times, P-values, and adjusted P-values. fitted, lower, and upper are optional and stay in input order. GAM bounds are +/- 2 standard errors on the link scale. PreTSA bounds equal the fitted values.
• Add local_verbose() to set options(log_message.verbose) for the calling frame and restore it on exit. Compiled log_message() reads that option through get_verbose().
• Add --demo to the Python and Shell log_message scripts and remove the standalone example files.
• Move the Python and Shell helpers from inst/python/ to inst/scripts/. The old path is removed.
• compatibility:
• invoke_fun() requires a list or pairlist of argument values, or NULL. Calls with arguments still use a temporary child environment: captured expressions use temporary symbols, caller-frame side effects stay in that environment, and captured model calls are not generally replayable.
• R verbosity is unchanged: an explicit call argument wins, then options(log_message.verbose), otherwise the message stays visible.
• Python and Shell no longer read LOG_MESSAGE_VERBOSE. An omitted verbose stays visible.
• ask is no longer silenced when verbose = FALSE in R, Python, and Shell. error still signals.
• Honor NO_COLOR in the Python and Shell scripts so terminal styling can be bypassed.
• fix:
• Keep nonconstant zero-sum features in PreTSA trend significance tests and return a P-value of one for constant features.
• Include zero values in fast_aggregate() means and align them with aggregate_matrix() means.
• Apply grouped maximum, minimum, and custom summaries separately to each column, preserving dimensions and names for single-row groups.
• Preserve missing values when sparse maxima use na.rm = FALSE, and respect symmetric and triangular sparse matrix storage.
• Recognize pak's github:: prefix in installed repository metadata when checking package sources, avoiding unnecessary reinstallation.
• Reduce invoke_fun() call-construction overhead while keeping large objects outside captured calls. Preserve string function names, use the same function lookup for empty and nonempty calls, avoid temporary-name collisions, and preserve explicit missing arguments and their defaults.
• Keep the original check_r() installation error when the optional remotes package is not installed.
• Report a PSOCK worker that exits during send, or while the scheduler is waiting for a result, as parallelize_worker_error. Classification does not depend on the language of R's connection messages. A serialization failure, including a warning promoted to an error, is still raised unchanged when the worker is alive.
• docs:
• List local_verbose in the pkgdown reference index.