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

Please readCONTRIBUTING if you wish to add a new vector class.

• 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

Classes that wrap numbers.

• 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

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

• deb_decimal - Non-decimal currencies asdouble withunit andbases attributes:3.825
• deb_lsd - Tripartite non-decimal currencies:8:13s:4d
• deb_tetra - Tetrapartite non-decimal currencies:8:13s:4d:3f

• errors - Numbers with uncertainty:1 ± 0.3

• fracture - Fractions:1/3

• nombre - Number names:one

• num - Numbers with formatting:1.00

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

• units - Numbers with units:1 [m/s]

Classes that wrap dates and times.

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

• 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

• 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"

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

• yr - Year-based time scales:4.2 ka

• hms - Time of day:12:34:56

• term - Represent ordinal academic semesters:20164

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

Classes that wrap character strings.

• character - Strings:"a"

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

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

Classes that wrap complex objects.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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)

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

Classes related to geospatial

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

• 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)>

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

• 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]

Classes implemented by packages for their own use

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

Classes related to colours

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

• Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

• vctrs: simplifies creating vector classes

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

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

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