Package: toolbox 0.1.1

toolbox: List, String, and Meta Programming Utility Functions

Includes functions for mapping named lists to function arguments, random strings, pasting and combining rows together across columns, etc.

Authors:Timothy Conwell

# Install 'toolbox' in R:

install.packages('toolbox', repos = c('https://tconwell.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

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Dependencies:

Help page	Topics
Get the names of the arguments to a function	argNames
Create a named list of length 1 using a name stored in a variable as the name.	argumentNamedList
Format a date string as " from a SQL database to a format compatible with a HTML date input value.	castDateString
Convert strings to logical.	castLogical
Convert strings to numeric if possible, otherwise remains as is.	castNumeric
Combine columns of a list/data frame into a list by row	combineCols
Group items of a list by name	consolidateList
Filters the argument list to match the arguments in what and then calls do.call.	do.call2
Add double quotes to strings.	doubleQuoteText
Checks if x is NULL or NA	isNULLorNA
Format data as a JSON object (like this: "x": "120").	jsonStr
Extract the values from each entry in a list of vectors at a specific index	listExtract
Pastes the names of a object into a string, optionally quoting the names.	namesToString
Paste together columns of a list/data frame	pasteCols
Paste parts of file paths/urls separated with single forward-slashes	pastePaths
Add single quotes to strings, useful for converting R strings into SQL formatted strings.	quoteText
Generates (pseudo)random strings of the specified char length	sampleStr