A Replacement and Extension of the 'optim' Function

Provides a test of replacement and extension of the optim() function to unify and streamline optimization capabilities in R for smooth, possibly box constrained functions of several or many parameters. This version has a reduced set of methods and is intended to be on CRAN.

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.

Graphical Displays for Structured Problem Solving and Diagnosis

Powerful graphical displays and statistical tools for structured problem solving and diagnosis. The functions of the 'sherlock' package are especially useful for applying the process of elimination as a problem diagnosis technique. The 'sherlock' package was designed to seamlessly work with the 'tidyverse' set of packages and provides a collection of graphical displays built on top of the 'ggplot' and 'plotly' packages, such as different kinds of small multiple plots as well as helper functions such as adding reference lines, normalizing observations, reading in data or saving analysis results in an Excel file. References: David Hartshorne (2019, ISBN: 978-1-5272-5139-7). Stefan H. Steiner, R. Jock MacKay (2005, ISBN: 0873896467).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Open System Files, 'URLs', Anything

Cross platform solution to open files, directories or 'URLs' with their associated programs.

Share Sensitive Information in R Packages

Allow sharing sensitive information, for example passwords, 'API' keys, etc., in R packages, using public key cryptography.

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.