customizing-vectors-r

customizing-vectors-r is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from justanesta/claude-code-resources. It costs 86 tokens per session (997 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using vctrs, an R package for creating custom vector types and keeping operations' types and sizes predictable.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps build custom R vector classes, define conversion rules, and write operations that work consistently with data frames.
Why use it?
It prevents functions from returning surprising types or lengths when they combine, convert, or manipulate data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps build custom R vector classes, define conversion rules, and write operations that work consistently with data frames.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add justanesta/claude-code-resources --skill customizing-vectors-r
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/justanesta/claude-code-resources

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 997 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00086 $0.00997
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00399
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00100

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 714a17c972b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

customizing-vectors-r scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/R/customizing-vectors-r/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Customizing Vectors R

This skill covers type-stable operations and custom vector class design using the vctrs package.

Core Benefits

  • Type stability - Predictable output types regardless of input values
  • Size stability - Predictable output sizes from input sizes
  • Consistent coercion rules - Single set of rules applied everywhere
  • Robust class design - Proper S3 vector infrastructure

When to Use vctrs

Use vctrs when:

  1. Building custom vector classes - Data frame compatibility, subsetting
  2. Type-stable functions in packages - Guaranteed output types
  3. Consistent coercion/casting - Explicit rules, predictable behavior
  4. Size/length stability - Predictable sizing from inputs

Don't use vctrs when:

  • Simple one-off analyses - Base R is sufficient
  • No custom classes needed - Standard types work fine
  • Performance critical + simple operations - Base R may be faster
  • External API constraints - Must return base R types

vctrs vs Base R Decision Matrix

Use Case Base R vctrs When to Choose vctrs
Simple combining c() vec_c() Need type stability, consistent rules
Custom classes S3 manually new_vctr() Want data frame compatibility, subsetting
Type conversion as.*() vec_cast() Need explicit, safe casting
Finding common type Not available vec_ptype_common() Combining heterogeneous inputs
Size operations length() vec_size() Working with non-vector objects

Building Custom Vector Classes

See custom-vector-class.md for the complete pattern:

  • Constructor (low-level)
  • Helper (user-facing)
  • Format method

Type-Stable Functions

See type-stable-functions.md for:

  • Guaranteed output types with vec_cast()
  • Avoiding type-depends-on-data patterns

Coercion and Casting

See coercion-casting.md for:

  • Explicit casting with clear rules
  • Common type finding with vec_ptype_common()
  • Self-coercion methods
  • Cross-type coercion methods

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 125 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 714a17c972b6

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customizing-vectors-r is a skill published in the GitHub repository justanesta/claude-code-resources (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 997 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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