The alexmisc
package contains Alexander Brenning’s miscellaneous
utility functions.
You can install the development version from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("alexanderbrenning/alexmisc")
This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:
library(alexmisc)
replace_umlaute("Jenalöbnitz")
#> [1] "Jenaloebnitz"
failed(try(sqrt("a"), silent = TRUE))
#> [1] TRUE
geocode_wiki_town("Jena")
#> Loading required package: magrittr
#> $name
#> [1] "Jena"
#>
#> $latitude
#> [1] 50.92721
#>
#> $longitude
#> [1] 11.58636
## basic example code