Creates Log Files

Contains functions to help create log files. The package aims to overcome the difficulty of the base R sink() command. The log_print() function will print to both the console and the file log, without interfering in other write operations.

Manipulation of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint Documents

Access and manipulate 'Microsoft Word', 'RTF' and 'Microsoft PowerPoint' documents from R. The package focuses on tabular and graphical reporting from R; it also provides two functions that let users get document content into data objects. A set of functions lets add and remove images, tables and paragraphs of text in new or existing documents. The package does not require any installation of Microsoft products to be able to write Microsoft files.

Functional Data Analysis

These functions were developed to support functional data analysis as described in Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B. W. (2005) Functional Data Analysis. New York: Springer and in Ramsay, J. O., Hooker, Giles, and Graves, Spencer (2009). Functional Data Analysis with R and Matlab (Springer). The package includes data sets and script files working many examples including all but one of the 76 figures in this latter book. Matlab versions are available by ftp from < https://www.psych.mcgill.ca/misc/fda/downloads/FDAfuns/>.

Reads in 'Neuroimaging' 'GIFTI' Files with Geometry Information

Functions to read in the geometry format under the 'Neuroimaging' 'Informatics' Technology Initiative ('NIfTI'), called 'GIFTI' < https://www.nitrc.org/projects/gifti/>. These files contain surfaces of brain imaging data.

Read SDMX-XML Data

Read Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) XML data. This the main transmission format used in official statistics. Data can be imported from local SDMX-ML files or a SDMX web-service and will be read in 'as is' into a dataframe object. The 'RapidXML' C++ library < https://rapidxml.sourceforge.net/> is used to parse the XML data.

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.

Generate Citation File Format ('cff') Metadata for R Packages

The Citation File Format version 1.2.0 is a human and machine readable file format which provides citation metadata for software. This package provides core utilities to generate and validate this metadata.

Effective File Navigation from the R Console

Functions for printing the contents of a folder as columns in a ragged-bottom data.frame and for viewing the details (size, time created, time modified, etc.) of a folder's top level contents.

Create Native 'Excel' Charts and Work with Microsoft 'Excel' Files

An R interface to the 'OpenPyXL' 'Python' library to create native 'Excel' charts and work with Microsoft 'Excel' files.

Fast Access to Large ASCII Files

Methods for fast access to large ASCII files. Currently the following file formats are supported: comma separated format (CSV) and fixed width format. It is assumed that the files are too large to fit into memory, although the package can also be used to efficiently access files that do fit into memory. Methods are provided to access and process files blockwise. Furthermore, an opened file can be accessed as one would an ordinary data.frame. The LaF vignette gives an overview of the functionality provided.