R package SSBtools

Tools used by other packages from Statistics Norway

Official version on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=SSBtools

install.packages("SSBtools")  # Install from CRAN 
library(SSBtools)             # Load SSBtools
?HierarchyCompute             # Help documentation of function HierarchyCompute

# Alternatively install from GitHub if you want to test the newest changes
devtools::install_github("statisticsnorway/SSBtools") 

Some of the functions

Function
AddLeadingZeros	Add leading zeros to numbers while preserving other text
AutoHierarchies	Ensure standardized coding of hierarchies
AutoSplit	Creating variables by splitting the elements of a character vector without needing a split string
CbindIdMatch	Combine several data frames by using id variables to match rows
DimList2Hrc/Hrc2DimList	Conversion between hierarchy coding in sdcTable and TauArgus
GaussSuppression	Secondary suppression by Gaussian elimination
FactorLevCorr	Factor level correlation
FindDimLists	Finding dimList
FormulaSums/Formula2ModelMatrix	Sums (aggregates) and/or sparse model matrix with possible cross table
HierarchicalGroups	Finding hierarchical variable groups
HierarchicalWildcardGlobbing	Find variable combinations by advanced wildcard/globbing specifications.
Hierarchies2ModelMatrix	Model matrix representing crossed hierarchies
HierarchiesAndFormula2ModelMatrix	Model matrix representing crossed hierarchies according to a formula
HierarchyCompute	Hierarchical Computations
Match	Matching rows in data frames
matlabColon	Simulate Matlab's ':'
RbindAll	Combining several data frames when the columns don't match
Reduce0exact	Reducing a non-negative regression problem
RowGroups	Create numbering according to unique rows
SSBtoolsData	Function that returns a dataset
Stack	Stack columns from a data frame and include variables.
Unstack	Unstack a column from a data frame and include additional variables.
WildcardGlobbing	Row selection by wildcard/globbing
WildcardGlobbingVector	Selection of elements by wildcard/globbing