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A Collection of Handy, Useful Functions

v1.2.7 · Feb 25, 2026 · BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE

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A set of little functions that have been found useful to do little odds and ends such as plotting the results of K-means clustering, substituting special text characters, viewing parts of a data.frame, constructing formulas from text and building design and response matrices.

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Rd conversion errors:
Converting parsed Rd's to LaTeX .Warning in file(out, "wt") :
  cannot open file '/tmp/Rtmp7Bxcvk/file22b09323b4d82f': No space left on device
Warning in file(con, "r") :
  cannot open file '/tmp/Rtmp7Bxcvk/file22b09323b4d82f': No such file or directory
Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
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Dependencies Reverse dependencies ggplot2 plyr dplyr purrr scales Matrix assertthat tibble rlang SurvHiDim causalHyperGraph coefplot resumer modelDown useful

Version History

19 tracked
new 1.2.7 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.2.7 ← 1.2.6.1 diff Feb 25, 2026
updated 1.2.6.1 ← 1.2.6 diff Oct 23, 2023
updated 1.2.6 ← 1.2.5 diff Oct 7, 2018
updated 1.2.5 ← 1.2.4 diff Jun 8, 2018
updated 1.2.4 ← 1.2.3 diff May 20, 2018
updated 1.2.3 ← 1.2.2 diff Jun 6, 2017
updated 1.2.2 ← 1.2.1 diff May 24, 2017
updated 1.2.1 ← 1.2.0 diff Jun 28, 2016
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.9 diff Jan 9, 2016
updated 1.1.9 ← 1.1.8 diff Sep 21, 2015
updated 1.1.8 ← 1.1.6 diff Jan 20, 2014
updated 1.1.6 ← 1.1.5 diff Sep 28, 2012
updated 1.1.5 ← 1.1.4 diff Jun 14, 2012
updated 1.1.4 ← 1.1.3 diff Mar 19, 2012