The dostats
R package is a compilation of helper
utilities for computing statistics and operating on R as a language. It
is particularly helpful with packages like plyr
,
but is useful anytime that simple functions have to be defined.
There are at present four functions of note.
dostats
creates a function that returns a single line
data.frame
from a list of functions.compose
create a a functional composition of an
arbitrary number of functions nesting each call withing the other.
%.%
is a operator alias for composition of two
functions.f%.%g
is equivalent to
function(x)f(g(x))
. There are helper functions for compose
that assist in creating functions
wargs
specifies new default arguments.onarg
specifies the argument that should be first in
the formals list.seq_consecutive
will create a vector form a source
vector than increments every time the source vector changes..T
is a helper function for creating character vectors
without having to insert quotes.