This package provides an overview of the demand for natural gas in the US by state and country level. Data source: US Energy Information Administration <https://www.eia.gov/>.

Demographic data on the United States at the county and state levels spanning multiple years.

Make requests from the US Treasury Fiscal Data API endpoints.

Detects values imported from spreadsheets that were auto-converted to Excel date serials and reconstructs the originally intended day.month decimals (for example, 30.3 that Excel displayed as 30/03/2025'). The functions work in a vectorized manner, preserve non-serial values, and support both the 1900 and 1904 date systems.

This package provides researchers with a simple set of diagnostic tools for monitoring the progress and reliability of raters conducting content coding tasks. Goehring (2024) <https://bengoehring.github.io/improving-content-analysis-tools-for-working-with-undergraduate-research-assistants.pdf> argues that supervisors---especially supervisors of small teams---should utilize computational tools to monitor reliability in real time. As such, this package provides easy-to-use functions for calculating inter-rater reliability statistics and measuring the reliability of one coder compared to the rest of the team.

Compiled and cleaned the county-level estimates of fertilizer, nitrogen and phosphorus, from 1945 to 2012 in United States of America (USA). The commercial fertilizer data were originally generated by USGS based on the sales data of commercial fertilizer. The manure data were estimated based on county-level population data of livestock, poultry, and other animals. See the user manual for detailed data sources and cleaning methods. usfertilizer utilized the tidyverse to clean the original data and provide user-friendly dataframe. Please note that USGS does not endorse this package. Also data from 1986 is not available for now.

An implementation of Lind and Mehlum's (2010) <doi:10.1111/j.1468-0084.2009.00569.x> Utest to test for the presence of a U shaped or inverted U shaped relationship between variables in (generalized) linear models. It also implements a test of upward/downward sloping relationships at the lower and upper boundary of the data range.

Using matrix layout to visualize the unique, common, or individual contribution of each predictor (or matrix of predictors) towards explained variation on different models. These contributions were derived from variation partitioning (VP) and hierarchical partitioning (HP), applying the algorithm of "Lai et al. (2022) Generalizing hierarchical and variation partitioning in multiple regression and canonical analyses using the rdacca.hp R package.Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13: 782-788 <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13800>".

Uniform sampling on various geometric shapes, such as spheres, ellipsoids, simplices.

The uc.check() function checks whether the roots of a given polynomial lie outside the Unit circle. You can also easily draw an unit circle.

This package provides tools for fitting and assessing Bayesian multilevel regression models that account for unmeasured confounders.

We propose a new procedure, called model uncertainty variance, which can quantify the uncertainty of model selection on Autoregressive Moving Average models. The model uncertainty variance not pay attention to the accuracy of prediction, but focus on model selection uncertainty and providing more information of the model selection results. And to estimate the model measures, we propose an simplify and faster algorithm based on bootstrap method, which is proven to be effective and feasible by Monte-Carlo simulation. At the same time, we also made some optimizations and adjustments to the Model Confidence Bounds algorithm, so that it can be applied to the time series model selection method. The consistency of the algorithm result is also verified by Monte-Carlo simulation. We propose a new procedure, called model uncertainty variance, which can quantify the uncertainty of model selection on Autoregressive Moving Average models. The model uncertainty variance focuses on model selection uncertainty and providing more information of the model selection results. To estimate the model uncertainty variance, we propose an simplified and faster algorithm based on bootstrap method, which is proven to be effective and feasible by Monte-Carlo simulation. At the same time, we also made some optimizations and adjustments to the Model Confidence Bounds algorithm, so that it can be applied to the time series model selection method. The consistency of the algorithm result is also verified by Monte-Carlo simulation. Please see Li,Y., Luo,Y., Ferrari,D., Hu,X. and Qin,Y. (2019) Model Confidence Bounds for Variable Selection. Biometrics, 75:392-403.<DOI:10.1111/biom.13024> for more information.

Comprehensive analysis and forecasting of univariate time series using automatic time series models of many kinds. Harvey AC (1989) <doi:10.1017/CBO9781107049994>. Pedregal DJ and Young PC (2002) <doi:10.1002/9780470996430>. Durbin J and Koopman SJ (2012) <doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641178.001.0001>. Hyndman RJ, Koehler AB, Ord JK, and Snyder RD (2008) <doi:10.1007/978-3-540-71918-2>. Gómez V, Maravall A (2000) <doi:10.1002/9781118032978>. Pedregal DJ, Trapero JR and Holgado E (2024) <doi:10.1016/j.ijforecast.2023.09.004>.

UpSet.js is a re-implementation of UpSetR to create interactive set visualizations for more than three sets. This is a htmlwidget wrapper around the JavaScript library UpSet.js'.

Calculates one-sample unbiased central moment estimates and two-sample pooled estimates up to 6th order, including estimates of powers and products of central moments. Provides the machinery for obtaining unbiased central moment estimators beyond 6th order by generating expressions for expectations of raw sample moments and their powers and products. Gerlovina and Hubbard (2019) <doi:10.1080/25742558.2019.1701917>.

Core functions necessary for using The Globe and Mail's R data journalism template, startr', along with utilities for day-to-day data journalism tasks, such as reading and writing files, producing graphics and cleaning up datasets.

Automatically converts language-specific verbal information, e.g., "1st half of the 19th century," to its standardized numerical counterparts, e.g., "1801-01-01/1850-12-31." It follows the recommendations of the MIDAS ('Marburger Informations-, Dokumentations- und Administrations-System'), see <doi:10.11588/artdok.00003770>.

The framework proposed in Jenul et al., (2022) <doi:10.1007/s10994-022-06221-9>, together with an interactive Shiny dashboard. UBayFS is an ensemble feature selection technique embedded in a Bayesian statistical framework. The method combines data and user knowledge, where the first is extracted via data-driven ensemble feature selection. The user can control the feature selection by assigning prior weights to features and penalizing specific feature combinations. UBayFS can be used for common feature selection as well as block feature selection.

United is a software tool which can be downloaded at the following website <http://www.schroepl.net/pbm/software/united/>. In general, it is a virtual manager game for football teams. This package contains helpful functions for determining an optimal formation for a virtual match in United. E.g. knowing that the opponent has a strong defensive it is advisable to beat him in the midfield. Furthermore, this package contains functions for computing the optimal usage of hardness in a game.

Uniform sampling of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) using exact enumeration by relating each DAG to a sequence of outpoints (nodes with no incoming edges) and then to a composition of integers as suggested by Kuipers, J. and Moffa, G. (2015) <doi:10.1007/s11222-013-9428-y>.

This package provides a tool to define the rare biosphere. ulrb solves the problem of the definition of rarity by replacing arbitrary thresholds with an unsupervised machine learning algorithm (partitioning around medoids, or k-medoids). This algorithm works for any type of microbiome data, provided there is an abundance table. This method also works for non-microbiome data.

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Mission Planner provides an easy to use work flow for planning autonomous obstacle avoiding surveys of ready to fly unmanned aerial vehicles to retrieve aerial or spot related data. It creates either intermediate flight control files for the DJI-Litchi supported series or ready to upload control files for the pixhawk-based flight controller. Additionally it contains some useful tools for digitizing and data manipulation.

This package provides a collection of parametric quantile regression models for bounded data. At present, the package provides 13 parametric quantile regression models. It can specify regression structure for any quantile and shape parameters. It also provides several S3 methods to extract information from fitted model, such as residual analysis, prediction, plotting, and model comparison. For more computation efficient the [dpqr]'s, likelihood, score and hessian functions are written in C++. For further details see Mazucheli et. al (2022) <doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.106816>.

Enables the user to calculate Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) by means of various parametric and semiparametric GARCH-type models. For the latter the estimation of the nonparametric scale function is carried out by means of a data-driven smoothing approach. Model quality, in terms of forecasting VaR and ES, can be assessed by means of various backtesting methods such as the traffic light test for VaR and a newly developed traffic light test for ES. The approaches implemented in this package are described in e.g. Feng Y., Beran J., Letmathe S. and Ghosh S. (2020) <https://ideas.repec.org/p/pdn/ciepap/137.html> as well as Letmathe S., Feng Y. and Uhde A. (2021) <https://ideas.repec.org/p/pdn/ciepap/141.html>.