A Dipping Sauce for Data Analysis and Visualizations • dipsaus

Package dipsaus provides add-ons to various packages such as shiny, rlang, future, etc. to enhance these packages. To install the package,

# To install the development package
# remotes::install_github('dipterix/dipsaus')

# To install from CRAN
install.packages("dipsaus")

dipsaus provides add-ons from the following perspectives:

compoundInput2 assembles any shiny native inputs and create variable-length input;
actionButtonStyled add styles to shiny default actionButton and its updating function can also update the styles or enable/disable the button;
sync_shiny_inputs synchronize among shiny inputs without causing dead-locks in UI changes;
set_shiny_input to set shiny input object;
flex_div to display elements with flex layout;
html_asis escapes string so that they will be displayed ‘as-is’ on websites;
progress2 shows shiny progress bar, but it also works without shiny;
shiny_is_running check if shiny is running;

collapse is a parallel solution to calculate sum/mean along arrays, providing 4x speed-ups for large arrays;
make_forked_clusters enables multicore (forked clusters) in future package even in RStudio environment;
baseline_array to baseline arrays in multicore;
shift_array to shift arrays along given dimensions;
lapply_async2 uses future package, but with progress bar either in console or in shiny apps;
fastcov2 calculates covariance matrices in parallel;
rs_exec starts a new R session or job in RStudio;

eval_dirty works as base::eval, but supports quosures generated from rlang::quo;
match_calls match calls in a nested manner, and support changing the call arguments recursively;
%?<-% assigns default values to left-hand object. E.g. a %?<-% 1 assigns a to be 1 if a is NULL or does not exist;
%=>% provides JavaScript-style of creating functions;
new_function2 creates new function with quasi-quotation;
mask_function2 modifies function and mask certain elements within a function;
capture_expr captures messages and always return results as one-line string;
forelse provides Python-like for-else syntax;
test_farg tests whether function contains desired arguments;

check_installed_packages, package_installed checks if package(s) are installed;
col2hexStr convert color to hex strings that are friendly to HTML, CSS and JavaScript;
parse_svec converts a string into integer vectors, deparse_svec converts integer vectors back into a compact string;
drop_nulls removes invalid items within lists;
get_ram, mem_limit2 gets total RAM size as an alternatives for mem.limits in non-windows environment;
to_ram_size provides simple way to convert numbers to printable storage sizes in given units;
time_delta calculates time differences and returns a number in given units;
ask_yesno, ask_or_default interactively ask for user’s input either in console or in RStudio;
fastmap2 and fastqueue2 provides a wrapper of fastmap package, giving the object list-like operations;
shared_finalizer finalizes multiple elements when last element is garbage collected;
dev_create allows managing and grouping graphic devices;
print_directory_tree prints directory and containing files into tree-structures;
rs_* functions wrapping rstudioapi functions, but work without RStudio;
sexp_type2 get internal data type code;
to_datauri converts file to base64 formats.

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