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3.2.0

Provides Batch Functions and Visualisation for Basic Statistical Procedures

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Maintained by Sander H. van DeldenFirst published 2025-07-165 releasesCRAN page ↗

Designed to streamline data analysis and statistical testing, reducing the length of R scripts while generating well-formatted outputs in 'pdf', 'Microsoft Word', and 'Microsoft Excel' formats. In essence, the package contains functions which are sophisticated wrappers around existing R functions that are called by using 'f_' (user f_riendly) prefix followed by the normal function name. This third version of the 'rfriend' package focuses primarily on data exploration, including tools for creating summary tables, f_summary(), summary figures, f_scan(), outlier detection and removal, f_outlier() and f_remove_outliers(), performing data transformations, f_boxcox() in part based on 'MASS/boxcox' and 'rcompanion', and f_bestNormalize() which wraps and extends functionality from the 'bestNormalize' package. Furthermore, 'rfriend' can automatically (or on request) generate visualizations such as boxplots, f_boxplot(), QQ-plots, f_qqnorm(), and histograms f_hist(). Additionally, the package includes several statistical test functions: f_aov(), f_chisq_test(), f_corplot(), f_kruskal_test(), f_lmer(), f_glm(), f_t_test(), f_wilcox_test(), for sequential testing and visualisation of the similar named 'stats' functions. These functions, except for f_chisq_test(), support testing multiple response variables and predictors, while also handling assumption checks, data transformations, and post hoc tests. Post hoc results are automatically summarized in a table using the compact letter display (cld) format for easy interpretation. The package also provides a function to do model comparison, f_model_comparison(), and several utility functions to simplify common R tasks. For example, f_clear() clears the workspace and restarts R with a single command; f_setwd() sets the working directory to match the directory of the current script; f_theme() quickly changes 'RStudio' themes; and f_factors() converts multiple columns of a data frame to factors, and much more. If you encounter any issues or have feature requests, please feel free to contact me via email.

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5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

  • 3.2.0Latest
    2026-07-07 · current release · diff ↗
  • 3.1.0
    2026-05-31 · diff ↗
  • 3.0.0
    2026-04-29 · diff ↗
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    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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    2025-11-11 · diff ↗
  • 1.0.0
    2025-07-16
  • R
    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published
2025-07-16
Total releases
5 / 1 yrs
License
GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R
≥ 4.4.0
Bundled data
0.9 KB / 1 file
Download size
271 KB
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