cli - Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces

A suite of tools to build attractive command line interfaces ('CLIs'), from semantic elements: headings, lists, alerts, paragraphs, etc. Supports custom themes via a 'CSS'-like language. It also contains a number of lower level 'CLI' elements: rules, boxes, trees, and 'Unicode' symbols with 'ASCII' alternatives. It support ANSI colors and text styles as well.

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cli

19.43 score 709 stars 16k dependents 2.4k scripts 2.0M downloads

crayon - Colored Terminal Output

The crayon package is now superseded. Please use the 'cli' package for new projects. Colored terminal output on terminals that support 'ANSI' color and highlight codes. It also works in 'Emacs' 'ESS'. 'ANSI' color support is automatically detected. Colors and highlighting can be combined and nested. New styles can also be created easily. This package was inspired by the 'chalk' 'JavaScript' project.

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16.18 score 323 stars 5.1k dependents 1.8k scripts 1.1M downloads

remotes - R Package Installation from Remote Repositories, Including 'GitHub'

Download and install R packages stored in 'GitHub', 'GitLab', 'Bitbucket', 'Bioconductor', or plain 'subversion' or 'git' repositories. This package provides the 'install_*' functions in 'devtools'. Indeed most of the code was copied over from 'devtools'.

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16.11 score 357 stars 113 dependents 6.8k scripts 423k downloads

progress - Terminal Progress Bars

Configurable Progress bars, they may include percentage, elapsed time, and/or the estimated completion time. They work in terminals, in 'Emacs' 'ESS', 'RStudio', 'Windows' 'Rgui' and the 'macOS' 'R.app'. The package also provides a 'C++' 'API', that works with or without 'Rcpp'.

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15.92 score 473 stars 3.3k dependents 3.8k scripts 764k downloads

processx - Execute and Control System Processes

Tools to run system processes in the background. It can check if a background process is running; wait on a background process to finish; get the exit status of finished processes; kill background processes. It can read the standard output and error of the processes, using non-blocking connections. 'processx' can poll a process for standard output or error, with a timeout. It can also poll several processes at once.

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15.92 score 243 stars 1.6k dependents 434 scripts 1.2M downloads

callr - Call R from R

It is sometimes useful to perform a computation in a separate R process, without affecting the current R process at all. This packages does exactly that.

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15.63 score 303 stars 1.3k dependents 388 scripts 1.1M downloads

pak - Another Approach to Package Installation

The goal of 'pak' is to make package installation faster and more reliable. In particular, it performs all HTTP operations in parallel, so metadata resolution and package downloads are fast. Metadata and package files are cached on the local disk as well. 'pak' has a dependency solver, so it finds version conflicts before performing the installation. This version of 'pak' supports CRAN, 'Bioconductor' and 'GitHub' packages as well.

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15.50 score 807 stars 185 dependents 517 scripts 292k downloads

zip - Cross-Platform 'zip' Compression

Cross-Platform 'zip' Compression Library. A replacement for the 'zip' function, that does not require any additional external tools on any platform.

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15.38 score 95 stars 1.1k dependents 1.3k scripts 349k downloads

gh - 'GitHub' 'API'

Minimal client to access the 'GitHub' 'API'.

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githubgithub-api

15.27 score 231 stars 432 dependents 619 scripts 203k downloads

ps - List, Query, Manipulate System Processes

List, query and manipulate all system processes, on 'Windows', 'Linux' and 'macOS'.

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14.98 score 83 stars 1.6k dependents 159 scripts 1.2M downloads

desc - Manipulate DESCRIPTION Files

Tools to read, write, create, and manipulate DESCRIPTION files. It is intended for packages that create or manipulate other packages.

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14.81 score 125 stars 1.2k dependents 426 scripts 759k downloads

sessioninfo - R Session Information

Query and print information about the current R session. It is similar to 'utils::sessionInfo()', but includes more information about packages, and where they were installed from.

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14.32 score 80 stars 247 dependents 4.7k scripts 250k downloads

gitcreds - Query 'git' Credentials from 'R'

Query, set, delete credentials from the 'git' credential store. Manage 'GitHub' tokens and other 'git' credentials. This package is to be used by other packages that need to authenticate to 'GitHub' and/or other 'git' repositories.

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credentialscredentials-helpergitgithub

14.07 score 30 stars 438 dependents 644 scripts 192k downloads

pkgbuild - Find Tools Needed to Build R Packages

Provides functions used to build R packages. Locates compilers needed to build R packages on various platforms and ensures the PATH is configured appropriately so R can use them.

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14.05 score 77 stars 909 dependents 170 scripts 801k downloads

prettyunits - Pretty, Human Readable Formatting of Quantities

Pretty, human readable formatting of quantities. Time intervals: '1337000' -> '15d 11h 23m 20s'. Vague time intervals: '2674000' -> 'about a month ago'. Bytes: '1337' -> '1.34 kB'. Rounding: '99' with 3 significant digits -> '99.0' p-values: '0.00001' -> '<0.0001'. Colors: '#FF0000' -> 'red'. Quantities: '1239437' -> '1.24 M'.

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13.60 score 134 stars 3.6k dependents 101 scripts 780k downloads

pkgconfig - Private Configuration for 'R' Packages

Set configuration options on a per-package basis. Options set by a given package only apply to that package, other packages are unaffected.

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13.38 score 42 stars 12k dependents 43 scripts 1.3M downloads

rcmdcheck - Run 'R CMD check' from 'R' and Capture Results

Run 'R CMD check' from 'R' and capture the results of the individual checks. Supports running checks in the background, timeouts, pretty printing and comparing check results.

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12.55 score 122 stars 159 dependents 117 scripts 194k downloads

keyring - Access the System Credential Store from R

Platform independent 'API' to access the operating system's credential store. Currently supports: 'Keychain' on 'macOS', Credential Store on 'Windows', the Secret Service 'API' on 'Linux', and simple, platform independent stores implemented with environment variables or encrypted files. Additional storage back-ends can be added easily.

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12.45 score 203 stars 76 dependents 964 scripts 24k downloads

lpSolve - Interface to 'Lp_solve' v. 5.5 to Solve Linear/Integer Programs

Lp_solve is freely available (under LGPL 2) software for solving linear, integer and mixed integer programs. In this implementation we supply a "wrapper" function in C and some R functions that solve general linear/integer problems, assignment problems, and transportation problems. This version calls lp_solve version 5.5.

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12.10 score 21 stars 491 dependents 1.7k scripts 83k downloads

brio - Basic R Input Output

Functions to handle basic input output, these functions always read and write UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) files and provide more explicit control over line endings.

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12.02 score 59 stars 536 dependents 47 scripts 582k downloads

otel - OpenTelemetry R API

High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability. OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs used to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis in order to understand your software's performance and behavior. This package implements the OpenTelemetry API: <https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/>. Use this package as a dependency if you want to instrument your R package for OpenTelemetry.

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11.98 score 20 stars 2.9k dependents 6 scripts 657k downloads

archive - Multi-Format Archive and Compression Support

Bindings to 'libarchive' <http://www.libarchive.org> the Multi-format archive and compression library. Offers R connections and direct extraction for many archive formats including 'tar', 'ZIP', '7-zip', 'RAR', 'CAB' and compression formats including 'gzip', 'bzip2', 'compress', 'lzma' and 'xz'.

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compressionconnectionslibarchivecpp

11.65 score 147 stars 24 dependents 701 scripts 18k downloads

nanoparquet - Read and Write 'Parquet' Files

Self-sufficient reader and writer for flat 'Parquet' files. Can read most 'Parquet' data types. Can write many 'R' data types, including factors and temporal types. See docs for limitations.

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parquetcpp

11.15 score 83 stars 25 dependents 317 scripts 24k downloads

rematch2 - Tidy Output from Regular Expression Matching

Wrappers on 'regexpr' and 'gregexpr' to return the match results in tidy data frames.

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10.98 score 46 stars 201 dependents 34 scripts 401k downloads

filelock - Portable File Locking

Place an exclusive or shared lock on a file. It uses 'LockFile' on Windows and 'fcntl' locks on Unix-like systems.

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10.93 score 44 stars 917 dependents 74 scripts 96k downloads

rversions - Query 'R' Versions, Including 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel'

Query the main 'R' 'SVN' repository to find the versions 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel' refer to, and also all previous 'R' versions and their release dates.

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10.70 score 43 stars 148 dependents 62 scripts 169k downloads

urlchecker - Run CRAN URL Checks from Older R Versions

Provide the URL checking tools available in R 4.1+ as a package for earlier versions of R. Also uses concurrent requests so can be much faster than the serial versions.

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10.58 score 45 stars 153 dependents 20 scripts 154k downloads

pkgdepends - Package Dependency Resolution and Downloads

Find recursive dependencies of 'R' packages from various sources. Solve the dependencies to obtain a consistent set of packages to install. Download packages, and install them. It supports packages on 'CRAN', 'Bioconductor' and other 'CRAN-like' repositories, 'GitHub', package 'URLs', and local package trees and files. It caches metadata and package files via the 'pkgcache' package, and performs all 'HTTP' requests, downloads, builds and installations in parallel. 'pkgdepends' is the workhorse of the 'pak' package.

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10.23 score 133 stars 4 dependents 84 scripts 8.6k downloads

xopen - Open System Files, 'URLs', Anything

Cross platform solution to open files, directories or 'URLs' with their associated programs.

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9.76 score 34 stars 160 dependents 39 scripts 180k downloads

parsedate - Recognize and Parse Dates in Various Formats, Including All ISO 8601 Formats

Parse dates automatically, without the need of specifying a format. Currently it includes the git date parser. It can also recognize and parse all ISO 8601 formats.

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9.51 score 65 stars 29 dependents 249 scripts 9.1k downloads

rematch - Match Regular Expressions with a Nicer 'API'

A small wrapper on 'regexpr' to extract the matches and captured groups from the match of a regular expression to a character vector.

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9.26 score 972 dependents 22 scripts 573k downloads

rhub - Tools for R Package Developers

R-hub v2 uses GitHub Actions to run 'R CMD check' and similar package checks. The 'rhub' package helps you set up R-hub v2 for your R package, and start running checks.

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9.26 score 365 stars 1 dependents 187 scripts 6.8k downloads

pingr - Check if a Remote Computer is Up

Check if a remote computer is up. It can either just call the system ping command, or check a specified TCP port.

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dnsis-onlinepingtcpglibc

9.23 score 38 stars 22 dependents 120 scripts 38k downloads

xmlparsedata - Parse Data of 'R' Code as an 'XML' Tree

Convert the output of 'utils::getParseData()' to an 'XML' tree, that one can search via 'XPath', and easier to manipulate in general.

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xml

9.19 score 24 stars 40 dependents 25 scripts 61k downloads

pkgcache - Cache 'CRAN'-Like Metadata and R Packages

Metadata and package cache for CRAN-like repositories. This is a utility package to be used by package management tools that want to take advantage of caching.

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9.05 score 30 stars 7 dependents 32 scripts 10k downloads

dotenv - Load Environment Variables from '.env'

Load configuration from a '.env' file, that is in the current working directory, into environment variables.

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8.98 score 101 stars 6 dependents 1.2k scripts 8.5k downloads

cranlogs - Download Logs from the 'RStudio' 'CRAN' Mirror

'API' to the database of 'CRAN' package downloads from the 'RStudio' 'CRAN mirror'. The database itself is at <http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org>, see <https://github.com/r-hub/cranlogs.app> for the raw 'API'.

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8.93 score 88 stars 9 dependents 572 scripts 1.8k downloads

pkgsearch - Search and Query CRAN R Packages

Search CRAN metadata about packages by keyword, popularity, recent activity, package name and more. Uses the 'R-hub' search server, see <https://r-pkg.org> and the CRAN metadata database, that contains information about CRAN packages. Note that this is _not_ a CRAN project.

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8.88 score 110 stars 18 dependents 98 scripts 8.8k downloads

webfakes - Fake Web Apps for HTTP Testing

Create a web app that makes it easier to test web clients without using the internet. It includes a web app framework with path matching, parameters and templates. Can parse various 'HTTP' request bodies. Can send 'JSON' data or files from the disk. Includes a web app that implements the 'httpbin.org' web service.

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8.38 score 62 stars 1 dependents 18 scripts 30k downloads

available - Check if the Title of a Package is Available, Appropriate and Interesting

Check if a given package name is available to use. It checks the name's validity. Checks if it is used on 'GitHub', 'CRAN' and 'Bioconductor'. Checks for unintended meanings by querying 'Wiktionary' and Wikipedia.

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unconfunconf17

8.35 score 144 stars 3 dependents 139 scripts 1.4k downloads

whoami - Username, Full Name, Email Address, 'GitHub' Username of the Current User

Look up the username and full name of the current user, the current user's email address and 'GitHub' username, using various sources of system and configuration information.

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8.35 score 20 stars 32 dependents 34 scripts 17k downloads

debugme - Debug R Packages

Specify debug messages as special string constants, and control debugging of packages via environment variables.

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debugging-tool

8.04 score 153 stars 5 dependents 17 scripts 11k downloads

clisymbols - Unicode Symbols at the R Prompt

A small subset of Unicode symbols, that are useful when building command line applications. They fall back to alternatives on terminals that do not support Unicode. Many symbols were taken from the 'figures' 'npm' package (see <https://github.com/sindresorhus/figures>).

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7.80 score 83 stars 21 dependents 31 scripts 7.7k downloads

cyclocomp - Cyclomatic Complexity of R Code

Cyclomatic complexity is a software metric (measurement), used to indicate the complexity of a program. It is a quantitative measure of the number of linearly independent paths through a program's source code. It was developed by Thomas J. McCabe, Sr. in 1976.

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code-analysiscomplexity-measure

7.59 score 6 stars 7 dependents 43 scripts 18k downloads

prettycode - Pretty Print R Code in the Terminal

Replace the standard print method for functions with one that performs syntax highlighting, using ANSI colors, if the terminal supports them.

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7.48 score 106 stars 4 dependents 13 scripts 6.0k downloads

otelsdk - R SDK and Exporters for OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs used to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis in order to understand your software's performance and behavior. This package contains the OpenTelemetry SDK, and exporters. Use this package to export traces, metrics, logs from instrumented R code. Use the otel package to instrument your R code for OpenTelemetry.

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protobufcurlcpp

7.37 score 16 stars 5 scripts 39k downloads

asciicast - Create 'Ascii' Screen Casts from R Scripts

Record 'asciicast' screen casts from R scripts. Convert them to animated SVG images, to be used in 'README' files, or blog posts. Includes 'asciinema-player' as an 'HTML' widget, and an 'asciicast' 'knitr' engine, to embed 'ascii' screen casts in 'Rmarkdown' documents.

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7.33 score 244 stars 13 scripts 6.4k downloads

webdriver - 'WebDriver' Client for 'PhantomJS'

A client for the 'WebDriver' 'API'. It allows driving a (probably headless) web browser, and can be used to test web applications, including 'Shiny' apps. In theory it works with any 'WebDriver' implementation, but it was only tested with 'PhantomJS'.

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7.31 score 72 stars 1 dependents 136 scripts 4.7k downloads

rcorpora - A Collection of Small Text Corpora of Interesting Data

A collection of small text corpora of interesting data. It contains all data sets from 'dariusk/corpora'. Some examples: names of animals: birds, dinosaurs, dogs; foods: beer categories, pizza toppings; geography: English towns, rivers, oceans; humans: authors, US presidents, occupations; science: elements, planets; words: adjectives, verbs, proverbs, US president quotes.

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7.10 score 43 stars 1 dependents 30 scripts 4.6k downloads

prompt - Dynamic 'R' Prompt

Set the 'R' prompt dynamically, from a function. The package contains some examples to include various useful dynamic information in the prompt: the status of the last command (success or failure); the amount of memory allocated by the current 'R' process; the name of the R package(s) loaded by 'pkgload' and/or 'devtools'; various 'git' information: the name of the active branch, whether it is dirty, if it needs pushes pulls. You can also create your own prompt if you don't like the predefined examples.

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7.07 score 232 stars 2 dependents 85 scripts 312 downloads

secret - Share Sensitive Information in R Packages

Allow sharing sensitive information, for example passwords, 'API' keys, etc., in R packages, using public key cryptography.

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6.35 score 102 stars 55 scripts 642 downloads

tracer - Slick Call Stacks

Better looking call stacks after an error.

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6.11 score 35 stars 37 scripts 539 downloads

liteq - Lightweight Portable Message Queue Using 'SQLite'

Temporary and permanent message queues for R. Built on top of 'SQLite' databases. 'SQLite' provides locking, and makes it possible to detect crashed consumers. Crashed jobs can be automatically marked as "failed", or put in the queue again, potentially a limited number of times.

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5.97 score 57 stars 1 dependents 18 scripts 630 downloads

shinytoastr - Notifications from 'Shiny'

Browser notifications in 'Shiny' apps, using 'toastr': <https://github.com/CodeSeven/toastr#readme>.

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5.75 score 3 stars 9 dependents 62 scripts 1.1k downloads

cleancall - C Resource Cleanup via Exit Handlers

Wrapper of .Call() that runs exit handlers to clean up C resources. Helps managing C (non-R) resources while using the R API.

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5.38 score 20 stars 1 dependents 1 scripts 1.0k downloads

cliapp - Create Rich Command Line Applications

Create rich command line applications, with colors, headings, lists, alerts, progress bars, etc. It uses CSS for custom themes. This package is now superseded by the 'cli' package. Please use 'cli' instead in new projects.

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5.28 score 61 stars 63 scripts 996 downloads

showimage - Show an Image on an 'R' Graphics Device

Sometimes it is handy to be able to view an image file on an 'R' graphics device. This package just does that. Currently it supports 'PNG' files.

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5.25 score 8 stars 2 dependents 12 scripts 6.1k downloads

tsitter - Tree-Sitter Parsing Tools

Common tree-sitter parsing tools for R. It is meant to be used by other packages that specialize in particular languages and file formats.

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5.10 score 6 stars 30 scripts

keypress - Wait for a Key Press in a Terminal

Wait for a single key press at the 'R' prompt. This works in terminals, but does not currently work in the 'Windows' 'GUI', the 'macOS' 'GUI' ('R.app'), in 'Emacs' 'ESS', in an 'Emacs' shell buffer or in 'R Studio'. In these cases 'keypress' stops with an error message.

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5.00 score 22 stars 3 dependents 6 scripts 807 downloads

franc - Detect the Language of Text

With no external dependencies and support for 335 languages; all languages spoken by more than one million speakers. 'Franc' is a port of the 'JavaScript' project of the same name, see <https://github.com/wooorm/franc>.

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4.43 score 30 stars 18 scripts 785 downloads

cranlike - Tools for 'CRAN'-Like Repositories

A set of functions to manage 'CRAN'-like repositories efficiently.

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package-managementrepository

4.40 score 25 stars 4 scripts 810 downloads

simplegraph - Simple Graph Data Types and Basic Algorithms

Simple classic graph algorithms for simple graph classes. Graphs may possess vertex and edge attributes. 'simplegraph' has no dependencies and it is written entirely in R, so it is easy to install.

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4.19 score 2 stars 1 dependents 26 scripts 290 downloads

oskeyring - Raw System Credential Store Access from R

Aims to support all features of the system credential store, including non-portable ones. Supports 'Keychain' on 'macOS', and 'Credential Manager' on 'Windows'. See the 'keyring' package if you need a portable 'API'.

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4.10 score 6 stars 4 scripts 2.1k downloads

disposables - Create Disposable R Packages for Testing

Create disposable R packages for testing. You can create, install and load multiple R packages with a single function call, and then unload, uninstall and destroy them with another function call. This is handy when testing how some R code or an R package behaves with respect to other packages.

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4.00 score 12 stars 7 scripts 1.7k downloads

sankey - Illustrate the Flow of Information or Material

Plots that illustrate the flow of information or material.

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3.29 score 3 stars 13 scripts 703 downloads

rstack - Stack Data Type as an 'R6' Class

An extremely simple stack data type, implemented with 'R6' classes. The size of the stack increases as needed, and the amortized time complexity is O(1). The stack may contain arbitrary objects.

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3.18 score 1 dependents 7 scripts 656 downloads