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Pretty, human readable formatting of quantities
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# prettyunits

The `prettyunits` package formats quantities in human readable form.

* Time intervals: '1337000' -> '15d 11h 23m 20s'.
* Vague time intervals: '2674000' -> 'about a month ago'.
* Bytes: '1337' -> '1.34 kB'.
* Rounding: '99' with 3 significant digits -> '99.0'
* p-values: '0.00001' -> '<0.0001'.
* Colors: '#FF0000' -> 'red'.
* Quantities: '1239437' -> '1.24 M'.

## Installation

You can install the package from CRAN:

```{r eval = FALSE}
install.packages("prettyunits")
```

If you need the development version, install it from GitHub:

```{r eval = FALSE}
pak::pak("r-lib/prettyunits")
```

```{r include=FALSE}
library(prettyunits)
library(magrittr)
```

## Bytes

`pretty_bytes` formats number of bytes in a human readable way:

```{r}
pretty_bytes(1337)
pretty_bytes(133337)
pretty_bytes(13333337)
pretty_bytes(1333333337)
pretty_bytes(133333333337)
```

Here is a simple function that emulates the Unix `ls` command, with
nicely formatted file sizes:

```{r}
uls <- function(path = ".") {
files <- dir(path)
info <- files %>%
lapply(file.info) %>%
do.call(what = rbind)
info$size <- pretty_bytes(info$size)
df <- data.frame(d = ifelse(info$isdir, "d", " "),
mode = as.character(info$mode), user = info$uname, group = info$grname,
size = ifelse(info$isdir, "", info$size), modified = info$mtime, name = files)
print(df, row.names = FALSE)
}
uls()
```

## Quantities

`pretty_num` formats number related to linear quantities in a human readable way:
```{r}
pretty_num(1337)
pretty_num(-133337)
pretty_num(1333.37e-9)
```
Be aware that the result is wrong in case of surface or volumes, and for any non-linear quantity.

Here is a simple example of how to prettify a entire tibble
```{r}
library(tidyverse)
tdf <- tribble( ~name, ~`size in m`, ~`speed in m/s`,
"land snail", 0.075, 0.001,
"photon", NA, 299792458,
"African plate", 10546330, 0.000000000681)
tdf %>% mutate(across(where(is.numeric), pretty_num))
```

## Time intervals

`pretty_ms` formats a time interval given in milliseconds. `pretty_sec` does
the same for seconds, and `pretty_dt` for `difftime` objects. The optional
`compact` argument turns on a compact, approximate format.

```{r}
pretty_ms(c(1337, 13370, 133700, 1337000, 1337000000))
pretty_ms(c(1337, 13370, 133700, 1337000, 1337000000),
compact = TRUE)
pretty_sec(c(1337, 13370, 133700, 1337000, 13370000))
pretty_sec(c(1337, 13370, 133700, 1337000, 13370000),
compact = TRUE)

```

## Vague time intervals

`vague_dt` and `time_ago` formats time intervals using a vague format,
omitting smaller units. They both have three formats: `default`, `short` and `terse`.
`vague_dt` takes a `difftime` object, and `time_ago` works relatively to the
specified date.

```{r}
vague_dt(format = "short", as.difftime(30, units = "secs"))
vague_dt(format = "short", as.difftime(14, units = "mins"))
vague_dt(format = "short", as.difftime(5, units = "hours"))
vague_dt(format = "short", as.difftime(25, units = "hours"))
vague_dt(format = "short", as.difftime(5, units = "days"))
```

```{r}
now <- Sys.time()
time_ago(now)
time_ago(now - as.difftime(30, units = "secs"))
time_ago(now - as.difftime(14, units = "mins"))
time_ago(now - as.difftime(5, units = "hours"))
time_ago(now - as.difftime(25, units = "hours"))
```

## Rounding

`pretty_round()` and `pretty_signif()` preserve trailing zeros.

```{r}
pretty_round(1, digits=6)
pretty_signif(c(99, 0.9999), digits=3)
```

## p-values

`pretty_p_value()` rounds small p-values to indicate less than significance
level for small values.

```{r}
pretty_p_value(c(0.05, 0.0000001, NA))
```

## Colors

`pretty_color` converts colors from other representations to human-readable
names.

```{r}
pretty_color("black")
pretty_color("#123456")
```