This package provides a toolbox for working with public opinion data from Argentina. It facilitates access to microdata and the calculation of indicators of the Trust in Government Index (ICG), prepared by the Torcuato Di Tella University. Although we will try to document everything possible in English, by its very nature Spanish will be the main language. El paquete fue pensado como una caja de herramientas para el trabajo con datos de opinión pública de Argentina. El mismo facilita el acceso a los microdatos y el cálculos de indicadores del à ndice de Confianza en el Gobierno (ICG), elaborado por la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.

Obtain and evaluate various optimal designs for the 3, 4, and 5-parameter logistic models. The optimal designs are obtained based on the numerical algorithm in Hyun, Wong, Yang (2018) <doi:10.18637/jss.v083.i05>.

Designed to enhance data validation and management processes by employing a set of functions that read a set of rules from a CSV or Excel file and apply them to a dataset. Funded by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Possibility Lab, maintained by the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research.

Two-stage design for single-arm phase II trials with time-to-event endpoints (e.g., clinical trials on immunotherapies among cancer patients) can be calculated using this package. Two notable advantages of the package: 1) It provides flexible choices from three design methods (optimal, minmax, and admissible), and 2) the power of the design is more accurately calculated using the exact variance in the one-sample log-rank test. The package can be used for 1) planning the sample sizes and other design parameters, and 2) conducting the interim and final analyses for the Go/No-go decisions. More details about the design method can be found in: Wu, J, Chen L, Wei J, Weiss H, Chauhan A. (2020). <doi:10.1002/pst.1983>.

This package provides a set of binary operators for common tasks such as regex manipulation.

An implementation of the Ordered Forest estimator as developed in Lechner & Okasa (2019) <arXiv:1907.02436>. The Ordered Forest flexibly estimates the conditional probabilities of models with ordered categorical outcomes (so-called ordered choice models). Additionally to common machine learning algorithms the orf package provides functions for estimating marginal effects as well as statistical inference thereof and thus provides similar output as in standard econometric models for ordered choice. The core forest algorithm relies on the fast C++ forest implementation from the ranger package (Wright & Ziegler, 2017) <arXiv:1508.04409>.

This package provides tools to assist in safely applying user generated objective and derivative function to optimization programs. These are primarily function minimization methods with at most bounds and masks on the parameters. Provides a way to check the basic computation of objective functions that the user provides, along with proposed gradient and Hessian functions, as well as to wrap such functions to avoid failures when inadmissible parameters are provided. Check bounds and masks. Check scaling or optimality conditions. Perform an axial search to seek lower points on the objective function surface. Includes forward, central and backward gradient approximation codes.

Analyses of OTU tables produced by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, as well as example data. It contains the data and scripts used in the paper Linz, et al. (2017) "Bacterial community composition and dynamics spanning five years in freshwater bog lakes," <doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00169-17>.

This package provides a database containing the names of the babies born in Ontario between 1917 and 2018. Counts of fewer than 5 names were suppressed for privacy.

Data used in compiling the Handbook of UK Urban Tree Allometric Equations and Size Characteristics (Fennel 2024). The data include measurements of height, crown radius and diameter at breast height (DBH) for UK urban trees. For more details see Fennell (2024) Handbook of UK Urban Tree Allometric Equations and Size Characteristics (Version 1.4). <doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.28745.04961>.

The popular population genetic software Treemix by Pickrell and Pritchard (2012) <DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002967> estimates the number of migration edges on a population tree. However, it can be difficult to determine the number of migration edges to include. Previously, it was customary to stop adding migration edges when 99.8% of variation in the data was explained, but OptM automates this process using an ad hoc statistic based on the second-order rate of change in the log likelihood. OptM also has added functionality for various threshold modeling to compare with the ad hoc statistic.

An implementation of several functions for feature extraction in ordinal time series datasets. Specifically, some of the features proposed by Weiss (2019) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2019.1604370> can be computed. These features can be used to perform inferential tasks or to feed machine learning algorithms for ordinal time series, among others. The package also includes some interesting datasets containing financial time series. Practitioners from a broad variety of fields could benefit from the general framework provided by otsfeatures'.

Trains per-horizon probabilistic ensembles from a univariate time series. It supports rpart', glmnet', and kNN engines with flexible residual distributions and heteroscedastic scale models, weighting variants by calibration-aware scores. A Gaussian/t copula couples the marginals to simulate joint forecast paths, returning quantiles, means, and step increments across horizons.

This package provides a random forest based implementation of the method described in Chapter 7.1.2 (Regression model based anomaly detection) of Chandola et al. (2009) <doi:10.1145/1541880.1541882>. It works as follows: Each numeric variable is regressed onto all other variables by a random forest. If the scaled absolute difference between observed value and out-of-bag prediction of the corresponding random forest is suspiciously large, then a value is considered an outlier. The package offers different options to replace such outliers, e.g. by realistic values found via predictive mean matching. Once the method is trained on a reference data, it can be applied to new data.

Developed to help researchers who need to model the kinetics of carbon dioxide (CO2) production in alcoholic fermentation of wines, beers and other fermented products. The following models are available for modeling the carbon dioxide production curve as a function of time: 5PL, Gompertz and 4PL. This package has different functions, which applied can: perform the modeling of the data obtained in the fermentation and return the coefficients, analyze the model fit and return different statistical metrics, and calculate the kinetic parameters: Maximum production of carbon dioxide; Maximum rate of production of carbon dioxide; Moment in which maximum fermentation rate occurs; Duration of the latency phase for carbon dioxide production; Carbon dioxide produced until maximum fermentation rate occurs. In addition, a function that generates graphs with the observed and predicted data from the models, isolated and combined, is available. Gava, A., Borsato, D., & Ficagna, E. (2020)."Effect of mixture of fining agents on the fermentation kinetics of base wine for sparkling wine production: Use of methodology for modeling". <doi:10.1016/j.lwt.2020.109660>.

Provide functions for users or machines to quickly and easily retrieve datasets from the mindat.org API (<https://api.mindat.org/schema/redoc/>).

Quaternions and Octonions are four- and eight- dimensional extensions of the complex numbers. They are normed division algebras over the real numbers and find applications in spatial rotations (quaternions), and string theory and relativity (octonions). The quaternions are noncommutative and the octonions nonassociative. See the package vignette for more details.

This package provides a database resource that is accessible through the Open Database Connectivity ('ODBC') API. This package uses the Resource model, with URL "resolver" and "client", to dynamically discover and make accessible tables stored in a MS SQL Server database. For more details see Marcon (2021) <doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008880>.

Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the Odd Log-Logistic Generalized Gamma proposed in Prataviera, F. et al (2017) <doi:10.1080/00949655.2016.1238088>.

This package provides a wrapper for optim for nonlinear regression problems; see Nocedal J and Write S (2006, ISBN: 978-0387-30303-1). Performs ordinary least squares (OLS), iterative re-weighted least squares (IRWLS), and maximum likelihood (MLE). Also includes the robust outlier detection (ROUT) algorithm; see Motulsky, H and Brown, R (2006) <doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-123>.

Functionality to handle and project lat-long coordinates, easily download background maps and add a correct scale bar to OpenStreetMap plots in any map projection.

This package provides a unified object-oriented framework for numerical optimizers in R. Allows for both minimization and maximization with any optimizer, optimization over more than one function argument, measuring of computation time, setting a time limit for long optimization tasks.

Calculate the optimal sample size allocation that uses the minimum resources to achieve targeted statistical power in experiments. Perform power analyses with and without accommodating costs and budget. The designs cover single-level and multilevel experiments detecting main, mediation, and moderation effects (and some combinations). The references for the proposed methods include: (1) Shen, Z., & Kelcey, B. (2020). Optimal sample allocation under unequal costs in cluster-randomized trials. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 45(4): 446-474. <doi:10.3102/1076998620912418>. (2) Shen, Z., & Kelcey, B. (2022b). Optimal sample allocation for three-level multisite cluster-randomized trials. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 15 (1), 130-150. <doi:10.1080/19345747.2021.1953200>. (3) Shen, Z., & Kelcey, B. (2022a). Optimal sample allocation in multisite randomized trials. The Journal of Experimental Education, 90(3), 693-711. <doi:10.1080/00220973.2020.1830361>. (4) Shen, Z., Leite, W., Zhang, H., Quan, J., & Kuang, H. (2025). Using ant colony optimization to identify optimal sample allocations in cluster-randomized trials. The Journal of Experimental Education, 93(1), 167-185. <doi:10.1080/00220973.2024.2306392>. (5) Shen, Z., Li, W., & Leite, W. (in press). Statistical power and optimal design for randomized controlled trials investigating mediation effects. Psychological Methods. <doi:10.1037/met0000698>. (6) Champely, S. (2020). pwr: Basic functions for power analysis (Version 1.3-0) [Software]. Available from <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=pwr>.

Allows access to a proof-of-concept database containing Open Access species range models and relevant metadata. Access to the database is via both PostgreSQL connection and API <https://github.com/EnquistLab/Biendata-Frontend>, allowing diverse use-cases.