thinkr

{thinkr} is a set of tools for Cleaning Up Messy Files.

It contains some tools for cleaning up messy ‘Excel’ files to be suitable for R. People who have been working with ‘Excel’ for years built more or less complicated sheets with names, characters, formats that are not homogeneous. To be able to use them in R nowadays, we built a set of functions that will avoid the majority of importation problems and keep all the data at best.

Installation

CRAN version

Github development version

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ThinkR-open/thinkr")

Once installed, you can load thinkr:

or without the package startup message:

Usage

peep

peep function allows to print intermediate outputs inside a {dplyr}/%>% workflow

data(iris)
# just symbols
iris %>%
  peep(head, tail) %>%
  rename(species = Species) %>%
  summary()
#>   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
#> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
#> 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
#> 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa
#>     Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width   Species
#> 145          6.7         3.3          5.7         2.5 virginica
#> 146          6.7         3.0          5.2         2.3 virginica
#> 147          6.3         2.5          5.0         1.9 virginica
#> 148          6.5         3.0          5.2         2.0 virginica
#> 149          6.2         3.4          5.4         2.3 virginica
#> 150          5.9         3.0          5.1         1.8 virginica
#>   Sepal.Length    Sepal.Width     Petal.Length    Petal.Width   
#>  Min.   :4.300   Min.   :2.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :0.100  
#>  1st Qu.:5.100   1st Qu.:2.800   1st Qu.:1.600   1st Qu.:0.300  
#>  Median :5.800   Median :3.000   Median :4.350   Median :1.300  
#>  Mean   :5.843   Mean   :3.057   Mean   :3.758   Mean   :1.199  
#>  3rd Qu.:6.400   3rd Qu.:3.300   3rd Qu.:5.100   3rd Qu.:1.800  
#>  Max.   :7.900   Max.   :4.400   Max.   :6.900   Max.   :2.500  
#>        species  
#>  setosa    :50  
#>  versicolor:50  
#>  virginica :50  
#>                 
#>                 
#> 
# expressions with .
iris %>%
  peep(head(., n = 2), tail(., n = 3)) %>%
  summary()
#>   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
#> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
#>     Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width   Species
#> 148          6.5         3.0          5.2         2.0 virginica
#> 149          6.2         3.4          5.4         2.3 virginica
#> 150          5.9         3.0          5.1         1.8 virginica
#>   Sepal.Length    Sepal.Width     Petal.Length    Petal.Width   
#>  Min.   :4.300   Min.   :2.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :0.100  
#>  1st Qu.:5.100   1st Qu.:2.800   1st Qu.:1.600   1st Qu.:0.300  
#>  Median :5.800   Median :3.000   Median :4.350   Median :1.300  
#>  Mean   :5.843   Mean   :3.057   Mean   :3.758   Mean   :1.199  
#>  3rd Qu.:6.400   3rd Qu.:3.300   3rd Qu.:5.100   3rd Qu.:1.800  
#>  Max.   :7.900   Max.   :4.400   Max.   :6.900   Max.   :2.500  
#>        Species  
#>  setosa    :50  
#>  versicolor:50  
#>  virginica :50  
#>                 
#>                 
#> 
# or both
iris %>%
  peep(head, tail(., n = 3)) %>%
  summary()
#>   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
#> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
#> 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
#> 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa
#>     Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width   Species
#> 148          6.5         3.0          5.2         2.0 virginica
#> 149          6.2         3.4          5.4         2.3 virginica
#> 150          5.9         3.0          5.1         1.8 virginica
#>   Sepal.Length    Sepal.Width     Petal.Length    Petal.Width   
#>  Min.   :4.300   Min.   :2.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :0.100  
#>  1st Qu.:5.100   1st Qu.:2.800   1st Qu.:1.600   1st Qu.:0.300  
#>  Median :5.800   Median :3.000   Median :4.350   Median :1.300  
#>  Mean   :5.843   Mean   :3.057   Mean   :3.758   Mean   :1.199  
#>  3rd Qu.:6.400   3rd Qu.:3.300   3rd Qu.:5.100   3rd Qu.:1.800  
#>  Max.   :7.900   Max.   :4.400   Max.   :6.900   Max.   :2.500  
#>        Species  
#>  setosa    :50  
#>  versicolor:50  
#>  virginica :50  
#>                 
#>                 
#> 
# use verbose to see what happens
iris %>%
  peep(head, tail(., n = 3), verbose = TRUE) %>%
  summary()
#> head(.)
#>   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
#> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
#> 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
#> 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa
#> tail(., n = 3)
#>     Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width   Species
#> 148          6.5         3.0          5.2         2.0 virginica
#> 149          6.2         3.4          5.4         2.3 virginica
#> 150          5.9         3.0          5.1         1.8 virginica
#>   Sepal.Length    Sepal.Width     Petal.Length    Petal.Width   
#>  Min.   :4.300   Min.   :2.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :0.100  
#>  1st Qu.:5.100   1st Qu.:2.800   1st Qu.:1.600   1st Qu.:0.300  
#>  Median :5.800   Median :3.000   Median :4.350   Median :1.300  
#>  Mean   :5.843   Mean   :3.057   Mean   :3.758   Mean   :1.199  
#>  3rd Qu.:6.400   3rd Qu.:3.300   3rd Qu.:5.100   3rd Qu.:1.800  
#>  Max.   :7.900   Max.   :4.400   Max.   :6.900   Max.   :2.500  
#>        Species  
#>  setosa    :50  
#>  versicolor:50  
#>  virginica :50  
#>                 
#>                 
#>

clean_*

Function clean_names allows to clean dirty names, while removing special characters, spaces, …

data(iris)

iris %>% head()
#>   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
#> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
#> 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
#> 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa
iris %>%
  clean_names() %>%
  head()
#>   sepal_length sepal_width petal_length petal_width species
#> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
#> 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
#> 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa

Function clean_vec allows to clean character vectors, while removing special characters, spaces, …

vector <- c("Jean Sébastien", "Anne-Sophie", "44@Bernard2")
cleaned <- clean_vec(vector)
cleaned
#> [1] "jean_sebastien" "anne_sophie"    "x44_bernard2"

Excel positions

Find Excel column position name from column number and inversely

ncol_to_excel(6)
#> [1] "F"
excel_to_ncol("AF")
#> [1] 32

Code of Conduct

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