core_commons.R

########################################################################################################################
## set a default cran r mirror  and customize environment

#cat(".Rprofile: Setting Goettingen repository\n")
#todo consider to use chooseCRANmirror(graphics=FALSE, ind=10) instead

r = getOption("repos") # hard code the UK repo for CRAN

r["CRAN"] = "http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/"
options(repos = r)
rm(r)


## user browser for help
options(help_type="html")

## plot more characters per line
options(width=150)

## adjust dplyr printing settings
## http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22471256/overriding-variables-not-shown-in-dplyr-to-display-all-columns-from-df
## http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29396111/dplyrtbl-df-fill-whole-screen
options(dplyr.print_max = 20) ## num rows
options(dplyr.width = 130) ## width
#options(dplyr.width = 280); options(width=280) ## width

# for sqldf to avoid the use of tckl
options(gsubfn.engine = "R")


########################################################################################################################
## automatic package installation

require_auto <-  function(x){
    warning("require_auto is deprecated, use loadpack() instead")

    x <- as.character(substitute(x))

    if(isTRUE(x %in% .packages(all.available=TRUE))) {
        eval(parse(text=paste("require(", x, ",  quietly=T)", sep="")))
    } else {
        #        update.packages(ask=F) # update dependencies, if any.
        eval(parse(text=paste("install.packages('", x, "')", sep="")))
    }

    if(isTRUE(x %in% .packages(all.available=TRUE))) {
        eval(parse(text=paste("require(", x, ",  quietly=T)", sep="")))
    } else {
        source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
        #        biocLite(character(), ask=FALSE) # update dependencies, if any.
        eval(parse(text=paste("biocLite('", x, "', ask=FALSE)", sep="")))
        eval(parse(text=paste("require(", x, ",  quietly=T)", sep="")))
    }
}

## externalized installer to also allow for installation without loading
.instpack <- function(x){
    if(!isTRUE(x %in% .packages(all.available=TRUE)) && any(available.packages()[,1]==x)) {
        # update.packages(ask=F) # update dependencies, if any.
        eval(parse(text=paste("install.packages('", x, "')", sep="")))
    }

    ## if it's still missing check if it's on bioconductor
    if(!isTRUE(x %in% .packages(all.available=TRUE))) {
        bcPackages <- as.vector(read.dcf(url("https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.3/bioc/src/contrib/PACKAGES"), "Package"))

        if(any(bcPackages==x)){
            source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
            eval(parse(text=paste("biocLite('", x, "', ask=FALSE)", sep="")))
        }
    }
}

loadpack <-  function(x, warn_conflicts=T){
    x <- as.character(substitute(x));

   .instpack(x)

    ## load it using a library function so that loadpack errors if package is still not ins
    eval(parse(text=paste("library(", x, ",  quietly=T, warn.conflicts=", warn_conflicts, ")", sep="")))
}

check_version = function(pkg_name, min_version) {
    cur_version = packageVersion(pkg_name)
    if(cur_version < min_version) stop(sprintf("Package %s needs a newer version,
               found %s, need at least %s", pkg_name, cur_version, min_version))
}
#check_version("dplyr", "0.4-1")

########################################################################################################################
## load core packages

loadpack(plyr)
loadpack(stringr)
loadpack(reshape2)
#loadpack(reshape2, quietly=T, warn_conflicts=F)

## load on purpose after plyr
loadpack(dplyr, warn_conflicts=F)
loadpack(magrittr, warn_conflicts=F)
loadpack(tidyr, warn_conflicts=F)

## needed for caching
loadpack(digest)
loadpack(readr)
suppressWarnings(loadpack(readxl)) ## supress differring build number
#loadpack(readxl) ## supress differring build number


## common plotting requirements since they are omnipresent
loadpack(ggplot2)
loadpack(scales, warn_conflicts=F)
loadpack(grid)

## for table exploration without using Rstudio
loadpack(DT)


## moved into datatable_commons because replaced almost everywhere with dplyr
#loadpack(data.table)




########################################################################################################################
#### Convenience aliases


echo <- function(...) cat(paste(...), fill=T)

ac <- function(...) as.character(...)

# string concatenation without space gaps (could/should use paste0 instead)
## Deprecated: use paste0 instead
#concat <- function(...) paste(..., sep="")

unlen <- function(x) length(unique(x))

pp <- function(dat) page(dat, method = "print")

as.df <- function(dt) as.data.frame(dt)


########################################################################################################################
#### data.frame manipulation


shuffle <- function(df) df[sample(nrow(df)),]

first <- function(x, n=1) head(x,n)



#vec2df <- function(namedVec) namedVec %>% {data.frame(name=names(.), value=., row.names=NULL)}
vec2df <- function(namedVec) data.frame(name=names(namedVec), value=namedVec, row.names=NULL)


rownames2column <- function(df, colname){
    warning("DEPRECATED Use dplyr::add_rownames directly")
    add_rownames(df, var=colname)
}


column2rownames<- function(df, colname){
    #browser()
    ## force into df to avoid dplyr problems
    df <- as.df(df)

    rownames(df) <- ac(df[,colname])
    df[colname] <- NULL
    return(df)
}

## pushing some columns to the right end of a data.frame
push_right <- function(df, pushColNames){
    df[,c(setdiff(names(df),pushColNames), pushColNames)]
}


push_left <- function(df, pushColNames){
    df[,c(pushColNames, setdiff(names(df),pushColNames))]
}


#http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/datasets/R/html/base/html/formals.html
set_names <- function(df, ...){
    #browser()
    newnames <- as.character(unlist(list(...)))

    ## automatically convert matrices to data.frames (otherwise the names set would fail
    if(is.matrix(df)) df %<>% as.data.frame()

    names(df) <- newnames;
    return(df)
}
#iris %>% set_names(c("setosa", "hallo")) %>% head
#iris %>% set_names("setosa", "hallo") %>% head


rify_names  <- function(df){
    warning("DEPRECATED: use pretty_columns instead");
    names(df) <- names(df) %>% str_replace_all(c(" "="_", "-"="_"));
    df
}

pretty_columns  <- function(df){
    names(df) <- names(df) %>%
        str_replace_all("[#=.()-]+", "_") %>%
        str_replace("[_]+$", "") %>%
        str_replace("^[_]+", "") %>%
        tolower;
    df
}


head_html <- function(df, n=5) head(df, n) %>% knitr::kable(format="html") %>% print()

print_head <- function(df, desc=NULL){
    print(head(df))
    print(nrow(df))
    return(df)
}


fac2char <- function(mydata, convert=names(mydata)[sapply(mydata, is.factor)]){
    if(length(convert)==0){
        return(mydata)
    }

    inputColOrder <- names(mydata)

    convertData <- subset(mydata, select= names(mydata)%in%convert)
    convertData <- as.data.frame(lapply(convertData, as.character), stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

    keepData <-  subset(mydata, select=!(names(mydata)%in%convert))
    newdata <- cbind(convertData, keepData)
    newdata <- newdata[,inputColOrder]

    return(newdata)
}

## replace R within pipe change just use ... %>% do(replaceNA(0)) %>% ...
replaceNA <- function(x, withValue) { x[is.na(x)] <- withValue; x }



## todo still needed
safe_ifelse <- function(cond, yes, no) {
#browser()
    isfacOrChar <- function(x) class(x)  %in% c("factor", "character")

    if (isfacOrChar(yes) | isfacOrChar(no)) {
        yes <- ac(yes)
        no <- ac(no)
    }

    ifelse(cond,yes,no)
}


## for na instead use mutate_each with:
#empty_as_na <- function(x) safe_ifelse(x=="", NA, x)
#empty_as_na <- function(x) ifelse(class(x)  %in% c("factor", "character") & x=="", NA, x)
empty_as_na <- function(x){
    if("factor" %in% class(x)) x <- as.character(x) ## since ifelse wont work with factors
    ifelse(as.character(x)!="", x, NA)
}

#if(F){ ## DEBUG of empty_as_na
#cond <- allJobs %>% head %$% submit_time %>% c("")
#empty_as_na( cond)
#cond <- allJobs %>% head %$% resubmission_of
#empty_as_na( cond)
#
#empty_as_na( c(1, 2, NA))
#empty_as_na( c("sdf", "sdf2", NA))
#empty_as_na( c("sdf", "sdf2", ""))
#
#myFac <- as.factor(c("sdf", "sdf2", NA))
#empty_as_na( myFac)
#ifelse(as.character(myFac)!="", myFac, NA)
#
#empty_as_na( c("sdf", "sdf2", ""))
#
#iris[1,1] <- ""
#apply(iris, 2, function(x) gsub("^$|^ $", NA, x))
#}


## see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24172111/change-the-blank-cells-to-na/33952598#33952598


reload_dplyr <- function(){
    unloadNamespace('tidyr')
    unloadNamespace('dplyr')
    require(tidyr);require(dplyr)
}


## from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7505547/detach-all-packages-while-working-in-r
unload_packages <- function() {
    basic.packages <- c("package:stats","package:graphics","package:grDevices","package:utils","package:datasets","package:methods","package:base")
    package.list <- search()[ifelse(unlist(gregexpr("package:",search()))==1,TRUE,FALSE)]
    package.list <- setdiff(package.list,basic.packages)
    if (length(package.list)>0)  for (package in package.list) detach(package, character.only=TRUE)
}


## workaround for biomart
## Deprecated: load dplyr after biomart to avoid this problem
#dselect <- function(...) dplyr::select(...)


########################################################################################################################
#### Result Caching for long running tasks

## related: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/R.cache/R.cache.pdf

cache_it <- function(expr, filePrefix="cache"){
    cacheFile <- paste0(filePrefix, "_", substr(digest::digest(deparse(expr)), 1,6)) %>% paste0(".", ., ".RData")

    if(file.exists(cacheFile)){
        local(get(load(cacheFile)))
    } else {
        result <- eval(expr)
        save(result, file=cacheFile)
        result
    }
}

## Examples
#mydata <- quote(iris %>% filter(Species=="setosa")) %>% cache_it("tt")
#mydata <- quote(iris %>% filter(Species=="setosa")) %>% cache_it()
#mydata <- quote( { print("evaluate expr"); iris %>% filter(Species=="setosa") } ) %>% cache_it()

########################################################################################################################
#### File System

is.directory <- function(dirname) !is.na(file.info(dirname)$isdir)


mcdir <- function(dirname){
    if(!file.exists(dirname)){
        dir.create(dirname)
    }

    setwd(dirname)
}

locload <- function(fileName) local(get(load(fileName)))


## tbd: it would be more efficient to use Reduce here (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34344214/how-to-join-multiple-data-frames-using-dplyr)
rmerge <- function(LDF, by, ...){
    DF <- LDF[[1]]
    for (i in 2:length(LDF)) {
        DF <- merge(DF, LDF[[i]], by=by)
    }
    DF
}



## Deprecated: use trim_ext instead
trimEnd <- function(fileNames, ...) trim_ext(fileNames, ...)

trim_ext <-function(fileNames, exts=c()){
    for(fileExt in exts){
        fileNames <- str_replace(fileNames, paste(fileExt, "$",sep=""), "")
    }

    fileNames
}

## DEPRECATED Use write_tsv instead
write.delim <- function(df, file, header=TRUE,...){
    write.table(df, file, row.names=FALSE, col.names=header, sep="\t", ...)
}

rmSomeElements <- function(vec, toDel) vec[!(vec %in% toDel)]

rmLastElement <- function(vec) vec[-length(vec)]


########################################################################################################################
## Memory management


# improved list of objects
lsos <- function (pos = 1, pattern, order.by, decreasing=FALSE, head=FALSE, n=5) {
    napply <- function(names, fn) sapply(names, function(x) fn(get(x, pos = pos)))
    names <- ls(pos = pos, pattern = pattern)

    obj.class <- napply(names, function(x) as.character(class(x))[1])
    obj.mode <- napply(names, mode)
    obj.type <- ifelse(is.na(obj.class), obj.mode, obj.class)
    obj.size <- napply(names, object.size)/1000000
    obj.dim <- t(napply(names, function(x)

    as.numeric(dim(x))[1:2]))
    vec <- is.na(obj.dim)[, 1] & (obj.type != "function")
    obj.dim[vec, 1] <- napply(names, length)[vec]

    out <- data.frame(obj.type, obj.size, obj.dim)
    names(out) <- c("Type", "Size", "Rows", "Columns")

    if (!missing(order.by))
    out <- out[order(out[[order.by]], decreasing=decreasing), ]

    if (head) out <- head(out, n)

    out <- transform(out, var_name=rownames(out))
    rownames(out) <- NULL
    arrange(out, Size)
}

# shorthand that just shows top 1 results
lsosh <- function(..., n=10) {
    lsos(..., order.by="Size", decreasing=TRUE, head=TRUE, n=n)
}

########################################################################################################################
### Statistics


## outlier handling
trim_outliers <- function(values, range=quantile(values, c(0.05, 0.95)))  pmax(range[1], pmin(range[2], values))

## use trim_outliers instead
#limit_range <- function(values, range)  pmax(range[1], pmin(range[2], values))

se <- function(x) sd(x, na.rm=TRUE) / sqrt(sum(!is.na(x)))


########################################################################################################################
### Misc

## inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8343509/better-error-message-for-stopifnot
assert <- function (expr, error) {
    if (! expr) stop(error, call. = FALSE)
}