[R] [R-pkgs] New CRAN Package Announcement: asciiSetupReader

2017-09-15 Thread Jacob Kaplan
I'm pleased to announce that asciiSetupReader is now on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/asciiSetupReader/index.html This package allows users to read ASCII files that have an SPSS or SAS setup file (.sps or .sas). Datasets that come in these txt-sps and txt-sas paris can now be acces

[R] [R-pkgs] New package: fastDummies

2017-04-21 Thread Jacob Kaplan
Dear R users, I am happy to announce that the package fastDummies is now on CRAN (*https://cran.r-project.org/package=fastDummies )*. The fastDummies package lets you quickly and easily create dummy columns from categorical variables in data.tables

[R] [R-pkgs] Announcing caesar

2017-01-23 Thread Jacob Kaplan
Dear R users, I am happy to announce that the package caesar is now on CRAN ( https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/caesar/index.html). The caesar package lets you encrypt and decrypt strings using the common Caesar cipher or a more secure pseudorandom number generator method. If you would lik