Utils R

The utilsR package contains general utility functions for R. There are four groups of functions: column types, configuration read/update functions, creating folder structure/files, and logging functions.

Col Types

Functions:

• test_vec_str: Tests if the vector is a string
• test_vec_num: Tests if the vector is number
• test_vec_bool: Tests if the vector is boolean

Config

Functions:

• read_yaml: Reads in a yaml file
• read_json: Reads in a json file
• update_yaml: Updates a yaml file
• update_json: Updates a json file

Note: You can execute R code from within YAML configuration files by prefacing values with !expr. E.g.

x: !expr 1:10

config <- utilsR::read_yaml("./config.yaml")
config$x 

# prints 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

Folder Structure

Functions:

• create_dirs: Creates directories in the specified list
• create_files: Creates files in the specified list
• remove_files: Removes files in the specified list
• remove_dirs: Removes directories in the specified list

Logging

Functions:

• open_log: Opens the log file
• close_log: Closes the log file

open_log takes an argument fl, the name of the log file. The log functions also initiate time, so that it's easy to know how long a script file takes to run and logs the output all in one place.

General

%!in% does the opposite of %in%

Convert

• spss_to_csv: converts a list of spss files to csv files
• csv_to_dat: converts a list of csv files to dat files
• excel_to_dat: converts a list of excel files to dat files

Read

• read_excel_all: reads in all the sheets from an excel file. Built on top of readxl::read_excel.