List of functions in DataSHIELD v6.0 (as of 1 June 2020)

Intro

We are currently looking at reworking the list of functions to make them easier to use, and to find which ones you would find useful. If there is interest, we could add tags to functions so that you only load functions with certain tags like "beginners", "aggregate only" etc. To register interest in this, please email datashield@newcastle.ac.uk .

Data Preparation functions (generally of type "Assign")

Coercing functions

ds.asCharacter
ds.asInteger
ds.asMatrix

ds.asDataMatrix
ds.asList
ds.asNumeric

ds.asFactor
ds.asLogical

Number manipulation functions

ds.make
ds.Boole
ds.list

ds.log
ds.exp

ds.rep
ds.seq
ds.c

Data Frame/List manipulation functions

ds.completeCases
ds.replaceNA
ds.sample
ds.merge
ds.recodeValues

ds.dataFrame
ds.dataFrameSubset
ds.dataFrameFill
ds.dataFrameSort
ds.tapply
ds.tapply.assign
ds.vectorCalc

ds.list
ds.unList
ds.assign
ds.cbind
ds.rbind

Factor manipulation functions

ds.changeRefGroup

ds.recodeLevels

Administrative functions

ds.listClientsideFunctions
ds.listServersideFunctions
ds.message
ds.setSeed

ds.listDisclosureSettings
ds.ls
ds.rm
ds.testObjExists
ds.look

ds.listOpals
ds.setDefaultOpals

Data Analysis functions (generally of type "Aggregate")

Data structure queries

ds.levels
ds.length
ds.exists

ds.colnames
ds.names
ds.dim

ds.isValid
ds.isNA
ds.numNA
ds.class

Summary Statistics Functions

ds.mean
ds.meanByClass
ds.meanSdGp
ds.quantileMean
ds.rowColCalc

ds.var
ds.cov
ds.cor
ds.corTest

ds.summary

Matrices Functions

ds.matrix
ds.matrixDiag
ds.matrixMult

ds.matrixDet
ds.matrixDimnames
ds.matrixTranspose

ds.matrixDet.report
ds.matrixInvert

Table functions

ds.table

Survival Analysis functions

ds.lexis

ds.reShape

Distribution Generating functions

ds.rNorm
ds.rBinom

ds.rPois

ds.rUnif

Modelling Functions

ds.glm

ds.glmSLMA

ds.lmerSLMA
ds.glmerSLMA

Data Presentation functions

Plotting functions

ds.histogram

ds.densityGrid
ds.heatmapPlot
ds.contourPlot

ds.scatterPlot

Deprecated functions

These functions in the left hand column shouldn't be used, as a rule. There is information contained within the help for each of them detailing which function you should use instead, that does all of what the deprecated function did do, and more!

Deprecated function	Replacement function

Deprecated function	Replacement function
ds.subset	ds.dataFrameSubset
ds.subsetByClass	ds.dataFrameSubset
ds.table1D	ds.table
ds.table2D	ds.table

Generating the list of available functions yourself

See: /wiki/spaces/DSDEV/pages/12943456 for a list of all package manuals (pdf format) containing a list of all functions in our current DataSHIELD release.

Once you have loaded the DataSHIELD packages, you can find a list of all functions within a DataSHIELD package using the ls command in R/RStudio.

>ls("package:name")

The output below is for the dsBaseClient but can be substituted for any DataSHIELD package:

> ls("package:dsBaseClient")
 [1] "ds.asCharacter"             "ds.asDataMatrix"            "ds.asFactor"                "ds.asInteger"               "ds.asList"                 
 [6] "ds.asLogical"               "ds.asMatrix"                "ds.asNumeric"               "ds.assign"                  "ds.Boole"                  
[11] "ds.c"                       "ds.cbind"                   "ds.changeRefGroup"          "ds.class"                   "ds.colnames"               
[16] "ds.completeCases"           "ds.contourPlot"             "ds.cor"                     "ds.corTest"                 "ds.cov"                    
[21] "ds.dataFrame"               "ds.dataFrameFill"           "ds.dataFrameSort"           "ds.dataFrameSubset"         "ds.densityGrid"            
[26] "ds.dim"                     "ds.exists"                  "ds.exp"                     "ds.glm"                     "ds.glmerSLMA"              
[31] "ds.glmSLMA"                 "ds.heatmapPlot"             "ds.histogram"               "ds.isNA"                    "ds.isValid"                
[36] "ds.length"                  "ds.levels"                  "ds.lexis"                   "ds.list"                    "ds.listClientsideFunctions"
[41] "ds.listDisclosureSettings"  "ds.listOpals"               "ds.listServersideFunctions" "ds.lmerSLMA"                "ds.log"                    
[46] "ds.look"                    "ds.ls"                      "ds.make"                    "ds.matrix"                  "ds.matrixDet"              
[51] "ds.matrixDet.report"        "ds.matrixDiag"              "ds.matrixDimnames"          "ds.matrixInvert"            "ds.matrixMult"             
[56] "ds.matrixTranspose"         "ds.mean"                    "ds.meanByClass"             "ds.meanSdGp"                "ds.merge"                  
[61] "ds.message"                 "ds.names"                   "ds.numNA"                   "ds.quantileMean"            "ds.rbind"                  
[66] "ds.rBinom"                  "ds.recodeLevels"            "ds.recodeValues"            "ds.rep"                     "ds.replaceNA"              
[71] "ds.reShape"                 "ds.rm"                      "ds.rNorm"                   "ds.rowColCalc"              "ds.rPois"                  
[76] "ds.rUnif"                   "ds.sample"                  "ds.scatterPlot"             "ds.seq"                     "ds.setDefaultOpals"        
[81] "ds.setSeed"                 "ds.subset"                  "ds.subsetByClass"           "ds.summary"                 "ds.table"                  
[86] "ds.table1D"                 "ds.table2D"                 "ds.tapply"                  "ds.tapply.assign"           "ds.testObjExists"          
[91] "ds.unList"                  "ds.var"                     "ds.vectorCalc"