Awesome VectoRs

A curated list of amazingly awesome R vector classes, and the packages that provide them.

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING if you wish to add a new vector class.

Table of Contents

• Awesome VectoRs
  • Base
  • Numbers
  • Date and time
  • Compound
  • Computing
  • Internal
• Resources
  • Blogs
  • Books
  • Repositories

Base

Classes provided by base R.

• character - Strings: "a"
• numeric - Floating-point numbers: 1.234567
• integer - 32-bit integers: 1
• numeric_version - Software versions: '1.23.456'
• POSIXct - Calendar time with time zone, stored as days since epoch: 2020-03-03 09:16:17 CET
• POSIXlt - Calendar time with time zone, stored as record of components: 2020-03-03 09:16:17 CET

Numbers

Classes that wrap numbers.

• units - Numbers with units: 1 [m/s]

Date and time

Classes that wrap dates and times.

• aweek - Weeks that start on any day of the week: 2020-W10-2
• date_xx - Years, year-quarter, year-month and year-week: 2020-Q1
• hms - Time of day: 12:34:56
• yr - Year-based time scales: 4.2 ka

Compound

Classes that wrap complex objects.

• blob - Binary Large OBjects: blob[42 B]
• labelled - Labelled vectors: <Labelled double> 3 with labels
• mixed_units - Numbers with different units: 1 [m], 2 [kg]
• phone - Phone numbers parsed with Google's libphonenumber for formatting and further processing: # Parsed phone numbers: 5 total, 4 successfully parsed
• term - Labels for values in numeric objects: beta[1,2]

Computing

Classes related to computing

• ip_address - IP address: 192.168.0.1
• ip_interface - IP interface: 192.168.0.1/24
• ip_network - IP network: 192.168.0.0/24

Internal

Classes implemented by packages for their own use

• tokenlist - List of tokens: [3 tokens] with number of unique tokens

Resources

Books

• Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

Repositories

• vctrs: simplifies creating vector classes

Talks

• Jesse Sadler, vctrs: Creating custom vector classes with the vctrs package at RStudio::conf2020 with the companion tutorial debvctrs

License

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