HelpersMG

2026.3.31

Tools for Various R Functions Helpers

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Overview

About

Maintained by Marc GirondotFirst published 2015-04-0748 releasesCRAN page ↗

Contains miscellaneous functions useful for managing 'NetCDF' files (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCDF), get moon phase and time for sun rise and fall, tide level, analyse and reconstruct periodic time series of temperature with irregular sinusoidal pattern, show scales and wind rose in plot with change of color of text, Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for Bayesian MCMC analysis, plot graphs or boxplot with error bars, search files in disk by there names or their content, read the contents of all files from a folder at one time.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("HelpersMG", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-helpersmg

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-HelpersMG

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (6)

R >= 4.1MASSrlang codaMatrixggplot2

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

lme4 RNetCDF ncdf4 maps fields shiny ppcor pbmcapply pbapplyparallelvisNetwork igraph shinyWidgets cranlogs

Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Marc Girondot

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Marc Girondot

Author, Maintainer

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-04-07
Total releases: 48 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 519 KB
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With dependencies: not tracked yet

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