BBmisc (version 1.13.1)

Miscellaneous Helper Functions for B. Bischl

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Miscellaneous helper functions for and from B. Bischl and some other guys, mainly for package development.

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Bernd Bischl

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January 21st, 2026

Functions in BBmisc (1.13.1)

convertListOfRowsToDataFrame

Convert a list of row-vector of equal structure to a data.frame

convertInteger

Conversion for single integer

getClass1

Wrapper for class(x)[1]

isProperlyNamed

Are all elements of a list / vector uniquely named?

isScalarNA

Checks whether an object is a scalar NA value

getAttributeNames

Helper function for determining the vector of attribute names of a given object

isEmptyDirectory

Is one / are several directories empty?

isDirectory

Is one / are several files a directory?

getOperatingSystem

Functions to determine the operating system

getMaxIndexOfRows

Find row- or columnwise the index of the maximal / minimal element in a matrix

getMaxIndex

Return index of maximal/minimal/best element in numerical vector

getFirst

Get the first/last element of a list/vector

explode

Split up a string into substrings

ensureVector

Blow up single scalars / objects to vectors / list by replication

convertDataFrameCols

Converts columns in a data frame to characters, factors or numerics

convertRowsToList

Convert rows (columns) of data.frame or matrix to lists

isValidName

Can some strings be used for column or list element names without problems?

isSuperset

Check superset relation on two vectors

makeFileCache

A caching wrapper around load2

getUsedFactorLevels

Determines used factor levels

makeDataFrame

Initialize data.frame in a convenient way

hasAttributes

Check if given object has certain attributes

load2

Load RData file and return objects in it

optimizeSubInts

Naive multi-start version of optimize for global optimization

normalize

Normalizes numeric data to a given scale

lsort

A wrapper for sort to sort using the “C” collating rules

save2

Save multiple objects to a file

mapValues

Replace values in atomic vectors

makeSimpleFileLogger

Simple logger which outputs to a file

rowLapply

Apply function to rows of a data frame

printStrToChar

Print str(x) of an object to a string / character vector

printToChar

Prints object to a string / character vector

deprecated

Deprecated function. Do not use!

dapply

Call lapply on an object and return a data.frame

convertIntegers

Conversion for integer vector

convertToShortString

Converts any R object to a descriptive string so it can be used in messages

pause

Pause in interactive mode and continue on <Enter>.

strrepeat

Repeat and join a string

stopf

Wrapper for stop and sprintf

isExpensiveExampleOk

Conditional checking for expensive examples

vlapply

Apply a function with a predefined return value

warningf

Wrapper for warning and sprintf

setRowNames

Wrapper for rownames(x) = y, colnames(x) = y

setClasses

A wrapper for class(x) = classes

convertMatrixType

Converts storage type of a matrix

isSubset

Check subset relation on two vectors

is.error

Is return value of try an exception?

isScalarValue

Is given argument an atomic vector or factor of length 1?

insert

Insert elements from one list/vector into another list/vector

names2

Replacement for names which always returns a vector

sortByCol

Sort the rows of a data.frame according to one or more columns

rangeVal

Calculate range statistic

makeS3Obj

Simple constructor for S3 objects based on lists

makeProgressBar

Create a progress bar with estimated time

extractSubList

Extracts a named element from a list of lists

printHead

More meaningful head(df) output

setValue

Set a list element to a new value

%nin%

Simply a negated in operator

getRelativePath

Construct a path relative to another

isFALSE

A wrapper for identical(x, FALSE)

filterNull

Filter a list for NULL values

namedList

Create named list, possibly initialized with a certain element

seq_row

Generate sequences along rows or cols

messagef

Wrapper for message and sprintf

itostr

Convert Integers to Strings

getUnixTime

Current time in seconds

lib

A wrapper for library

setAttribute

A wrapper for attr(x, which) = y

suppressAll

Suppresses all output except for errors

symdiff

Calculates symmetric set difference between two sets

which.first

Find the index of first/last TRUE value in a logical vector

toRangeStr

Convert a numerical vector into a range string

splitTime

Split seconds into handy chunks of time

system3

Wrapper for system2 with better return type and errorhandling

splitPath

Split a path into components

requirePackages

Require some packages

checkArg

Check for a function argument

catf

Wrapper for cat and sprintf

cFactor

Combine multiple factors and return a factor

binPack

Simple bin packing

%btwn%

Check if some values are covered by the range of the values in a second vector

asMatrixCols

Extracts a named element from a list of lists

asQuoted

Converts a string into a quoted expression

addClasses

A wrapper to add to the class attribute

capitalizeStrings

Capitalize strings in a vector

argsAsNamedList

Parses ... arguments to a named list

chunk

Chunk elements of vectors into blocks of nearly equal size

clipString

Shortens strings to a given length

coalesce

Returns first non-missing, non-null argument

collapsef

Collapse vector to string

computeMode

Compute statistical mode of a vector (value that occurs most frequently)

collapse

Collapse vector to string

checkListElementClass

Check that a list contains only elements of a required type

do.call2

Execute a function call similar to do.call

dropNamed

Drop named elements of an object