A new release of what may be my most minor package, dang, is now on CRAN. The dang package regroups a few functions of mine that had no other home as for example lsos() from a StackOverflow question from 2009 (!!) is one, this overbought/oversold price band plotter from an older blog post is another. More recently added were helpers for data.table to xts conversion and a git repo root finder.

Some of these functions (like lsos()) where hanging in my .Rprofile, other just lived in scripts so some years ago I started to collect them in a package, and as of February this is now on CRAN too for reasons that are truly too bizarre to go about. It’s a weak and feeble variant of the old Torvalds line about backups and ftp sites …

As I didn’t blog about the 0.0.10 release, the NEWS entry for both follows:

Changes in version 0.0.11 (2019-10-24)

• New functions getGitRoot, inGit and isConnected.

• Improved function as.data.table.xts.

Changes in version 0.0.10 (2019-02-10)

• Initial CRAN release. See ChangeLog for earlier changes.

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is a comparison to the previous release. For questions or comments use the issue tracker off the GitHub repo.

If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can now sponsor me at GitHub. For the first year, GitHub will match your contributions.

This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.