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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19.82 score 720 stars 17k dependents 5.8k scripts 2.2M downloadscrayon - 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The crayon package is now superseded.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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16.29 score 323 stars 5.2k dependents 2.1k scripts 1.1M downloadsremotes - 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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16.22 score 357 stars 116 dependents 8.0k scripts 451k downloadsprocessx - 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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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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15.97 score 474 stars 3.4k dependents 5.4k scripts 595k downloadszip - 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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15.82 score 99 stars 1.1k dependents 1.2k scripts 374k downloadscallr - 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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15.78 score 303 stars 1.4k dependents 387 scripts 1.5M downloadspak - 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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15.61 score 820 stars 187 dependents 624 scripts 257k downloadsps - List, Query, Manipulate System Processes
List, query and manipulate all system processes, on 'Windows', 'Linux' and 'macOS'.
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15.28 score 83 stars 1.7k dependents 252 scripts 1.4M downloadsdesc - 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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15.08 score 125 stars 1.2k dependents 492 scripts 1.2M downloadsprettyunits - 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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14.45 score 134 stars 3.6k dependents 856 scripts 648k downloadssessioninfo - 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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14.37 score 80 stars 246 dependents 6.4k scripts 207k downloadsgitcreds - 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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13.86 score 30 stars 446 dependents 682 scripts 166k downloadspkgbuild - 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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13.77 score 77 stars 928 dependents 163 scripts 1.3M downloadspkgconfig - 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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13.55 score 42 stars 12k dependents 51 scripts 1.6M downloadsgh - 'GitHub' 'API'
Minimal client to access the 'GitHub' 'API'.
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13.24 score 232 stars 2 dependents 820 scripts 201k downloadsbrio - 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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12.13 score 59 stars 539 dependents 47 scripts 744k downloadsrcmdcheck - 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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12.12 score 123 stars 155 dependents 157 scripts 162k downloadsotel - 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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12.08 score 20 stars 3.8k dependents 9 scripts 1.5M downloadslpSolve - 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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11.99 score 21 stars 478 dependents 1.6k scripts 67k downloadskeyring - 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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11.83 score 203 stars 83 dependents 838 scripts 18k downloadsarchive - 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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11.68 score 148 stars 25 dependents 687 scripts 11k downloadsnanoparquet - 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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11.59 score 84 stars 32 dependents 559 scripts 21k downloadsfilelock - 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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11.14 score 44 stars 963 dependents 107 scripts 100k downloadsrematch2 - Tidy Output from Regular Expression Matching
Wrappers on 'regexpr' and 'gregexpr' to return the match results in tidy data frames.
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10.83 score 46 stars 199 dependents 37 scripts 266k downloadsurlchecker - 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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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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10.67 score 43 stars 149 dependents 72 scripts 134k downloadspkgcache - 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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10.23 score 30 stars 7 dependents 411 scripts 6.3k downloadspkgdepends - 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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10.18 score 135 stars 4 dependents 87 scripts 5.5k downloadsrematch - 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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9.88 score 1.0k dependents 128 scripts 389k downloadsxopen - Open System Files, 'URLs', Anything
Cross platform solution to open files, directories or 'URLs' with their associated programs.
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9.74 score 34 stars 156 dependents 45 scripts 155k downloadsparsedate - 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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9.66 score 65 stars 28 dependents 608 scripts 5.5k downloadspingr - 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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9.61 score 38 stars 18 dependents 131 scripts 38k downloadspkgsearch - 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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9.49 score 111 stars 18 dependents 414 scripts 8.3k downloadsdotenv - 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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9.34 score 102 stars 7 dependents 1.5k scripts 4.6k downloadsxmlparsedata - 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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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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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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9.08 score 88 stars 9 dependents 572 scripts 2.5k downloadswhoami - 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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8.41 score 20 stars 32 dependents 47 scripts 14k downloadsavailable - 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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8.34 score 145 stars 4 dependents 139 scripts 767 downloadswebfakes - 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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8.33 score 62 stars 1 dependents 21 scripts 30k downloadsdebugme - Debug R Packages
Specify debug messages as special string constants, and control debugging of packages via environment variables.
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8.07 score 153 stars 5 dependents 18 scripts 11k downloadsclisymbols - 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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8.04 score 84 stars 24 dependents 54 scripts 6.7k downloadscyclocomp - 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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7.72 score 6 stars 9 dependents 48 scripts 17k downloadsasciicast - 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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7.31 score 245 stars 18 scripts 4.4k downloadsprettycode - 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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7.29 score 105 stars 4 dependents 16 scripts 3.2k downloadsprompt - 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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7.24 score 232 stars 2 dependents 125 scripts 195 downloadsotelsdk - 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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7.03 score 17 stars 8 scripts 32k downloadswebdriver - '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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6.99 score 72 stars 1 dependents 136 scripts 2.2k downloadsrcorpora - 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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6.71 score 43 stars 1 dependents 31 scripts 1.8k downloadssecret - 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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6.38 score 102 stars 59 scripts 208 downloadstracer - Slick Call Stacks
Better looking call stacks after an error.
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6.22 score 35 stars 47 scripts 308 downloadsliteq - 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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6.15 score 58 stars 1 dependents 27 scripts 449 downloadscliapp - 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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6.06 score 61 stars 380 scripts 806 downloadsshinytoastr - Notifications from 'Shiny'
Browser notifications in 'Shiny' apps, using 'toastr': <https://github.com/CodeSeven/toastr#readme>.
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5.71 score 3 stars 9 dependents 64 scripts 872 downloadscleancall - 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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5.40 score 21 stars 1 dependents 1 scripts 395 downloadskeypress - 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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5.24 score 23 stars 5 dependents 8 scripts 666 downloadstsitter - 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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5.23 score 6 stars 35 scripts 272 downloadsshowimage - 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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5.06 score 8 stars 2 dependents 15 scripts 3.2k downloadsfranc - 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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4.54 score 30 stars 23 scripts 225 downloadscranlike - Tools for 'CRAN'-Like Repositories
A set of functions to manage 'CRAN'-like repositories efficiently.
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4.41 score 26 stars 4 scripts 322 downloadsdisposables - 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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4.30 score 12 stars 7 scripts 3.3k downloadssimplegraph - 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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4.23 score 2 stars 1 dependents 28 scripts 364 downloadsoskeyring - 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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3.99 score 7 stars 4 scripts 1.4k downloadssankey - Illustrate the Flow of Information or Material
Plots that illustrate the flow of information or material.
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3.35 score 3 stars 15 scripts 325 downloadsrstack - 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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