sanipy

Bring some sanity to R when working with Python via reticulate

Description

A set of utilities and helpers that make using Python via reiculate a bit saner.

See https://rud.is/b/2018/08/04/digging-into-mbox-details-a-tale-of-tm-reticulate/ for some functionality or look at the examples in the manual pages.

What’s Inside The Tin

The following functions are implemented:

Stucture inspection helpers:

• pystr: Compactly Display the Structure of a Python object
• pynames: (All) The Names of a Python Object

Strng helpers:

• get_chr: Retrieve a value from a Python ‘dict’ as a character
• utf8_decode: Decode a Python structure and retrieve a UTF-8 encoded value from it

Documentation helpers:

• py_doc: Use built-in ‘pydoc’ to get the Python HTML manual page for a given object
• readthedocs: Use “Read the Docs” to get help on a Python module/object

General Utility:

• %|0|%: Default value for an object length being 0

Installation

devtools::install_git("https://gitlab.com/hrbrmstr/sanipy.git")
# or
devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/sanipy")

Usage

library(sanipy)

# current verison
packageVersion("sanipy")

## [1] '0.1.0'