A Swiss-Army Knife for Data I/O

Streamlined data import and export by making assumptions that the user is probably willing to make: 'import()' and 'export()' determine the data format from the file extension, reasonable defaults are used for data import and export, web-based import is natively supported (including from SSL/HTTPS), compressed files can be read directly, and fast import packages are used where appropriate. An additional convenience function, 'convert()', provides a simple method for converting between file types.

Solving Linear Inverse Models

Functions that (1) find the minimum/maximum of a linear or quadratic function: min or max (f(x)), where f(x) = ||Ax-b||^2 or f(x) = sum(a_i*x_i) subject to equality constraints Ex=f and/or inequality constraints Gx>=h, (2) sample an underdetermined- or overdetermined system Ex=f subject to Gx>=h, and if applicable Ax~=b, (3) solve a linear system Ax=B for the unknown x. It includes banded and tridiagonal linear systems.

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.

Read and Write '.ini' Files

Parse simple '.ini' configuration files to an structured list. Users can manipulate this resulting list with lapply() functions. This same structured list can be used to write back to file after modifications.

Extract Genotypes from a PLINK .bed File

A matrix-like data structure that allows for efficient, convenient, and scalable subsetting of binary genotype/phenotype files generated by PLINK (< https://www.cog-genomics.org/plink2>), the whole genome association analysis toolset, without loading the entire file into memory.

Import and Handling for Plain and Formatted Text Files

Functions for importing and handling text files and formatted text files with additional meta-data, such including '.csv', '.tab', '.json', '.xml', '.html', '.pdf', '.doc', '.docx', '.rtf', '.xls', '.xlsx', and others.

Byte Pair Encoding Text Tokenization

Unsupervised text tokenizer focused on computational efficiency. Wraps the 'YouTokenToMe' library < https://github.com/VKCOM/YouTokenToMe> which is an implementation of fast Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) < https://aclanthology.org/P16-1162/>.

Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents

Utilities based on 'libpoppler' < https://poppler.freedesktop.org> for extracting text, fonts, attachments and metadata from a PDF file. Also supports high quality rendering of PDF documents into PNG, JPEG, TIFF format, or into raw bitmap vectors for further processing in R.

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.

HTML Widget to Show File Differences

A HTML widget that shows differences between files (text, images, and data frames).