misc
Miscellaneous Functions for Data and Geospatial Work
Helpers for common data analysis tasks including missing-value summaries and filters, simple reporting and plotting utilities, 'Excel' import and export workflows, and reading geospatial formats (for example shapefiles in zip archives, file geodatabases, KMZ, and KML) via 'sf' and related packages. Also includes small project utilities such as creating directories, gitignore scaffolding, combined package loading, and optional 'lintr' setup.
misc
{misc} stands for miscellaneous. This is a personal package. Use it
at your own risk.
Installation
You can install the released version of misc from github with:
if (!require("remotes")) install.packages("remotes")
if (!require("misc")) remotes::install_github("kguidonimartins/misc")
Available functions
Check all available functions inside an interactive session using
help(package = misc) or in the site package
here.
| ID | Function | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | add_gitignore() |
Add a gitignore file to the project root |
| 2 | combine_words_ptbr() |
Combine words using ptbr rules |
| 3 | create_dirs() |
Create directories |
| 4 | deduplicate_by() |
Remove duplicate rows based on specified grouping variables |
| 5 | describe_data() |
Describe data |
| 6 | filter_na() |
Easily filter NA values from data frames |
| 7 | ipak() |
Load multiple CRAN and GitHub R packages |
| 8 | na_count() |
Count NA frequency in data |
| 9 | na_viz() |
Visualize NA frequency in data |
| 11 | prefer() |
Defines preferred package::functions |
| 12 | quick_map() |
Create maps quickly |
| 13 | read_all_sheets_then_save_csv() |
Read and save all excel sheets and save them to a CSV file |
| 14 | read_all_xlsx_then_save_csv() |
Read all sheets from all excel files and save into CSV files |
| 15 | read_gdb() |
Read layers from a file geodatabase (.gdb) |
| 16 | read_geo() |
Read a geospatial file or dataset (auto-detect by extension) |
| 17 | read_kmz() |
Read a KMZ file (KML in a ZIP) |
| 18 | read_sf_zip() |
Read shapefile(s) inside a ZIP archive via GDAL |
| 19 | read_sheet_then_save_csv() |
Read an excel sheet and save it to a CSV file |
| 20 | remove_columns_based_on_NA() |
Remove columns based on NA values |
| 21 | save_plot() |
Save a ggplot figure |
| 22 | save_temp_data() |
Save object as RDS file |
| 23 | tad_view() |
Alternative data.frame viewer using tad |
| 24 | trim_fig() |
Remove white spaces around figures |
| 25 | view_excel() |
View data frame in Excel or other spreadsheet viewer |
| 26 | view_in() |
Alternative data.frame viewer |
| 27 | view_mapview_from_path() |
View spatial data from file path with optional map preview |
| 28 | view_vd() |
View data in VisiData |
| 29 | view_vd_nonint() |
View data frame in VisiData (non-interactive version) |