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
  • Contributing
  • Table of Contents
  • Numbers
    • base
    • bignum
    • debkeepr
    • errors
    • fracture
    • nombre
    • pillar
    • quantities
    • units
  • Date and time
    • aweek
    • base
    • clock
    • dint
    • era
    • hms
    • intermittent
    • tsibble
  • Strings
    • base
    • charcuterie
    • pillar
  • Compound
    • biblids
    • blob
    • dialr
    • haven
    • intrval
    • ivs
    • term
    • tf
    • units
  • Computing
    • ipaddress
  • Geospatial
    • geos
    • sf
    • s2
    • wk
  • Internal
    • textrecipes
  • Colours
    • palettes
• Resources
  • Books
  • Repositories
  • Blog posts
  • Talks
  • License

Numbers

Classes that wrap numbers.

base

• hexmode - Hexadecimal numbers: 2A
• integer - 32-bit integers: 1
• numeric - Floating-point numbers: 1.234567
• numeric_version - Software versions: '1.23.456'
• octmode - Octal numbers: 52

bignum

• bigfloat - High precision numbers: 0.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
• biginteger - Arbitrary precision integers: 25852016738884976640000

debkeepr

• deb_decimal - Non-decimal currencies as double with unit and bases attributes: 3.825
• deb_lsd - Tripartite non-decimal currencies: 8:13s:4d
• deb_tetra - Tetrapartite non-decimal currencies: 8:13s:4d:3f

errors

• errors - Numbers with uncertainty: 1 ± 0.3

fracture

• fracture - Fractions: 1/3

nombre

• nombre - Number names: one

pillar

• num - Numbers with formatting: 1.00

quantities

• quantities - Numbers with units and uncertainty: 1 ± 0.3 [m/s]

units

• units - Numbers with units: 1 [m/s]

Date and time

Classes that wrap dates and times.

aweek

• aweek - Weeks that start on any day of the week: 2020-W10-2

base

• 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

clock

• calendar - Alternative representations of calendar dates, such as year-quarter-day or year-month-weekday: 2019-02-Sun[2]
• time_point - Variable precision points in time, with and without time zones: "2020-02-01 02:03:04.000005"

dint

• date_y - Years: 2020
• date_yq - Year-quarter: 2020-Q1
• date_ym - Year-month: 2013-M12
• date_yw - Year-week: 2013-W12

era

• yr - Year-based time scales: 4.2 ka

hms

• hms - Time of day: 12:34:56

intermittent

• term - Represent ordinal academic semesters: 20164

tsibble

• yearmonth - Year-month: 2016 Jan
• yearquarter - Year-quarter: 2016 Q1
• yearweek - Year-week: 2021 W50

Strings

Classes that wrap character strings.

base

• character - Strings: "a"

charcuterie

• chars - Strings as iterable sets of characters: "abc" (class chars)

pillar

• char - Strings with minimum width and custom abbreviation: abc…xyz

Compound

Classes that wrap complex objects.

biblids

• doi - Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs): 10.1000/1

blob

• blob - Binary Large OBjects: blob[42 B]

dialr

• phone - Phone numbers parsed with Google's libphonenumber for formatting and further processing: # Parsed phone numbers: 5 total, 4 successfully parsed

haven

• labelled - Labelled vectors: <Labelled double> 3 with labels

intrval

• intrval - Relational operators for intervals: x %[]% c(a, b)

ivs

• iv - Interval vectors: [2019-01-05, 2019-05-06) [2019-01-06, 2019-05-22)

units

• mixed_units - Numbers with different units: 1 [m], 2 [kg]

term

• term - Labels for values in numeric objects: beta[1,2]

tf

• tfd - Tidy functional data: (0.0, 2.84);(0.5, -0.51);(1.0, -0.51)
• tfb - Tidy functional basis data: (0.0, 2.84);(0.5, -0.51);(1.0, -0.51)

Computing

Classes related to computing

ipaddress

• 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

Geospatial

Classes related to geospatial

geos

• geos_geometry - Geometry vector as GEOS external pointers: <POINT (0 1)>

s2

• s2_geography, s2_cell - Geometry vector of points on the sphere as external pointers to S2 objects, S2 cell IDs as 64-bit integers: <POINT (0 1)>

sf

• sfc - Geometry vector in spatial data frames: POINT (0 1)

wk

• crc - Circle: [1 2, r = 0.5]
• wkb - Well-known binary geometry: <POINT (0 1)>
• wkt - Well-known text geometry: POINT (0 1)
• xy - Points: (1 4)
• rct - Rectangle: [1 2 3 4]

Internal

Classes implemented by packages for their own use

textrecipes

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

Colours

Classes related to colours

palettes

• palettes_colour - Colours: $\color{red}{\bullet}$ #FF0000
• palettes_palette - Colour palettes: $\color{red}{\bullet}$ #FF0000

Resources

Books

• Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

Repositories

• vctrs: simplifies creating vector classes

Blog posts

• Earo Wang: A practical guide to vctrs-powered S3 programming: using vctrs for turtle graphics

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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