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Ecfun

2020-01-23

testURLs and read.testURLs have been removed, because it wasn't clear that anyone was using them, and more modern tools are available from:
http://www.measurementlab.net/

Thanks to Iñaki Ucar, Adam H Sparks, and Roy Mendelssohn for their replies to a question posted to R-Devel helped me understand what I needed to do to fix problems identified in the CRAN Checks.

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install.packages('Ecfun')

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0.2-2

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GPL (>= 2)

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Last Published

February 3rd, 2020

Functions in Ecfun (0.2-2)

Create a list of members of the US House and Senate

Create a new data.frame for predict

Election Class given state and surname of a US Senator

Convert three YMD vectors to a Date

Convert 3-column dates in data to class Date

Draw arrows between pairs of points.

Split a character string where a capital letter follows a lowercase letter

Coerce to numeric dropping commas and info after a blank

ping a Uniform resource locator (URL)

Can a variable reasonably be coerced to numeric?

Box-Cox power transformation and its inverse

Compare the lengths of two objects

Confidence interval for sample variance or standard deviation

Convert class to an integer 1-8 and vice versa

Interpolate between numbers or numbers of characters

Check and return names

Zero characters or NULL

Log-diagonal representation of a variance matrix

Date from a number of days since the start of 1970.

financialCrisisFiles

Files containing financial crisis data

Allocate a total by year

interpolate between pairs of vectors in a list

grepNonStandardCharacters

grep for nonstandard characters

Normal Probability Plot with Multiple Lines and Multiple Symbols

Parse surname and given name

Interpolate between numbers or numbers of characters

Convert character string with Dollar signs and commas to numerics

Convert character string with Dollar signs and commas to numerics

Allocate totals by year

Normal Probability Plot with Multiple Lines and Multiple Symbols

Read a data table in transpose form

rasterImage adjusting to zero distortion

Extract a named element from an object with a default

Create X to match Y

A "simulate" method for a glm object

simulate.bic.glm

A "simulate" method for a BMA::bic.glm object

subNonStandardNames

sub for nonstandard names

Value matching or partial matching

Compose a message as a single substring from a character vector

Merge Roll Call Vote

Identify YMD names in a character vector

match.data.frame

Identify the row of y best matching each row of x

Trim zero rows or columns from an object of class Image.

Read a National Income and Product Accounts data table

Read the list of elected officials in the United States Senate

Missing or length 0

Read the list of representatives in the United States House of Representatives

Match surname and givenName in a table

Match isolated quotes across records

Normal Probability Plot with Multiple Symbols

read.csv with Dates in 3 columns

mergeUShouse.senate

Expand a dataset on some members of the US Congress to the entire membership

readFinancialCrisisFiles

banking crisis data and function to read financial crisis files

Read Cook Partisan Voting Index

readUSstateAbbreviations

Read a list of abbreviations of states and territories of the United States

bivariate recode

Split the first field

subNonStandardCharacters

sub nonstandard characters with replacement

Truncated distribution

Sign function with zero option

Index of a single match