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Karl Bromans R Code

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A statistician's personal toolbox, growing one plotting utility at a time

statisticsbase-graphicsutilitiesr-packagepersonal-toolbox
◆Current state
broman is Karl Broman's collection of personal R utilities — base-graphics plotting helpers such as grayplot, dotplot and timeplot, running-window summaries, and assorted conveniences. Recent releases alternate between small additions, like runningratio2() with an adaptive window sized to hit a target denominator, and narrow bug fixes in crayons() and jiggle(). Version 0.92 removes an include that had begun warning on CRAN.
◆Where it's heading
The additions cluster around two themes: time-axis plotting and running-window summaries, both of which have been extended across several releases. Nothing here is planned in the usual sense — functions appear when the author needs them and bugs are fixed when they surface downstream, as jiggle() did through dotplot(). The C-level cleanup in 0.92 matches the same change made to R/qtl the same week, which is what maintaining a set of packages under one author looks like.
◆Prediction
Both recent function additions extend existing families rather than starting new ones, so the next release is most likely another variant in the running-window or time-plotting group, or a fix surfaced by one of the author's other packages.

◆Recent moves

  1. 8mo ago

    Remove R_ext/PrtUtil.h include flagged by CRAN

    Drops an include that began producing CRAN warnings — the same change the author applied to R/qtl in the same week. Compile-time hygiene with no user-visible effect.

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  2. 10mo ago

    Fix exact-name matching in crayons()

    Corrects crayons() failing to find perfect name matches. A one-line correctness fix in a colour lookup helper.

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  3. 11mo ago

    Fix jiggle() with factors missing levels

    Fixes jiggle() when a factor has unused levels, which surfaced as broken output from dotplot(). A downstream-visible bug, but narrow in scope.

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  4. 1y ago

    runningratio2() uses an adaptive window

    Adds runningratio2(), which sizes its window to hit a target denominator instead of using a fixed width. A genuinely different estimator from the existing running-window family rather than an option on it.

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  5. 2y ago

    timeplot() added; running functions accept NAs

    Adds timeplot(), a date-time counterpart to grayplot(), gives time_axis() scale and format arguments for label control, and allows NAs in runningmean() and runningratio(). Extends both of the package's active threads in one release.

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  6. 2y ago

    time_axis() added for date-time axis labels

    Adds time_axis() to help construct axis labels for date-times, plus a documentation unit correction. The starting point for the time-plotting work that continues in 0.84.

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