The "Vertical and Horizontal Inheritance Consistence Analysis" method is described in the following publication: "VHICA: a new method to discriminate between vertical and horizontal transposon transfer: application to the mariner family within Drosophila" by G. Wallau. et al. (2016) <DOI:10.1093/molbev/msv341>. The purpose of the method is to detect horizontal transfers of transposable elements, by contrasting the divergence of transposable element sequences with that of regular genes.

This package provides users with a simple and convenient mechanism to manage and query a Virtuoso database using the DBI (Data-Base Interface) compatible ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) interface. Virtuoso is a high-performance "universal server," which can act as both a relational database, supporting standard Structured Query Language ('SQL') queries, while also supporting data following the Resource Description Framework ('RDF') model for Linked Data. RDF data can be queried using SPARQL ('SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) queries, a graph-based query that supports semantic reasoning. This allows users to leverage the performance of local or remote Virtuoso servers using popular R packages such as DBI and dplyr', while also providing a high-performance solution for working with large RDF triplestores from R. The package also provides helper routines to install, launch, and manage a Virtuoso server locally on Mac', Windows and Linux platforms using the standard interactive installers from the R command-line. By automatically handling these setup steps, the package can make using Virtuoso considerably faster and easier for a most users to deploy in a local environment. Managing the bulk import of triples from common serializations with a single intuitive command is another key feature of this package. Bulk import performance can be tens to hundreds of times faster than the comparable imports using existing R tools, including rdflib and redland packages.

Generating realizations of a fractal Brownian function on uniform 1D & 2D grid with classic and generic versions of the Voss algorithm (random sequential additions).

Designed to help the user to determine the sensitivity of an proposed causal effect to unconsidered common causes. Users can create visualizations of sensitivity, effect sizes, and determine which pattern of effects would support a causal claim for between group differences. Number needed to treat formula from Kraemer H.C. & Kupfer D.J. (2006) <doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.09.014>.

This package provides methods for calculating the variance scale exponent to identify memory patterns in time series data. Includes tests for white noise, short memory, and long memory. See Fu, H. et al. (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.physa.2018.06.092>.

This package implements the Vector Matching algorithm to match multiple treatment groups based on previously estimated generalized propensity scores. The package includes tools for visualizing initial confounder imbalances, estimating treatment assignment probabilities using various methods, defining the common support region, performing matching across multiple groups, and evaluating matching quality. For more details, see Lopez and Gutman (2017) <doi:10.1214/17-STS612>.

Analyze Peptide Array Data and characterize peptide sequence space. Allows for high level visualization of global signal, Quality control based on replicate correlation and/or relative Kd, calculation of peptide Length/Charge/Kd parameters, Hits selection based on RFU Signal, and amino acid composition/basic motif recognition with RFU signal weighting. Basic signal trends can be used to generate peptides that follow the observed compositional trends.

Video interactivity within shiny applications using video.js'. Enables the status of the video to be sent from the UI to the server, and allows events such as playing and pausing the video to be triggered from the server.

This package provides a graphical user interface to integrate, visualize and explore results from linkage and quantitative trait loci analysis, together with genomic information for autopolyploid species. The app is meant for interactive use and allows users to optionally upload different sources of information, including gene annotation and alignment files, enabling the exploitation and search for candidate genes in a genome browser. In its current version, VIEWpoly supports inputs from MAPpoly', polymapR', diaQTL', QTLpoly', polyqtlR', GWASpoly', and HIDECAN packages.

This package implements the variable neighborhood trust region search (VNTRS) algorithm for nonlinear global optimization, following Bierlaire et al. (2009) "A Heuristic for Nonlinear Global Optimization" <doi:10.1287/ijoc.1090.0343>. The method combines neighborhood exploration with a trust-region framework to search the solution space efficiently. It can terminate a local search early when the iterates converge toward a previously visited local optimum or when further improvement within the current region is unlikely. The algorithm can also be used to identify multiple local optima.

Static and dynamic 3D plots to be used with ordination results and in diversity analysis, especially with the vegan package.

This package provides methods to calculate the expected value of information from a decision-analytic model. This includes the expected value of perfect information (EVPI), partial perfect information (EVPPI) and sample information (EVSI), and the expected net benefit of sampling (ENBS). A range of alternative computational methods are provided under the same user interface. See Heath et al. (2024) <doi:10.1201/9781003156109>, Jackson et al. (2022) <doi:10.1146/annurev-statistics-040120-010730>.

Generating functions for both optimal and ordinary difference sequences, and the difference-based estimation functions.

ProPublica <https://projects.propublica.org/represent/> makes United States Congress member votes available and has developed their own unique cartogram to visually represent this data. Tools are provided to retrieve voting data, prepare voting data for plotting with ggplot2', create vote cartograms and theme them.

This package performs modeling and forecasting of park visitor counts using social media data and (partial) on-site visitor counts. Specifically, the model is built based on an automatic decomposition of the trend and seasonal components of the social media-based park visitor counts, from which short-term forecasts of the visitor counts and percent changes in the visitor counts can be made. A reference for the underlying model that VisitorCounts uses can be found at Russell Goebel, Austin Schmaltz, Beth Ann Brackett, Spencer A. Wood, Kimihiro Noguchi (2023) <doi:10.1002/for.2965> .

This package implements wild bootstrap tests for autocorrelation in Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models based on Ahlgren and Catani (2016) <doi:10.1007/s00362-016-0744-0>, a combined Lagrange Multiplier (LM) test for Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (ARCH) in VAR models from Catani and Ahlgren (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.ecosta.2016.10.006>, and bootstrap-based methods for determining the cointegration rank from Cavaliere, Rahbek, and Taylor (2012) <doi:10.3982/ECTA9099> and Cavaliere, Rahbek, and Taylor (2014) <doi:10.1080/07474938.2013.825175>.

This package provides a set of functions for manipulating data frames in accordance with specific business rules. In addition, it includes wrapper functions for commonly used functions from the popular tidyverse package, making it easy to integrate these functions into data analysis workflows. The package is designed to streamline data preprocessing and help users quickly and efficiently perform data transformations that are specific to their business needs.

Various semiparametric and nonparametric statistical tools for immune correlates analysis of vaccine clinical trial data. This includes calculation of summary statistics and estimation of risk, vaccine efficacy, controlled effects (controlled risk and controlled vaccine efficacy), and mediation effects (natural direct effect, natural indirect effect, proportion mediated). See Gilbert P, Fong Y, Kenny A, and Carone, M (2022) <doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxac024> and Fay MP and Follmann DA (2023) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2208.06465>.

Generate Venn plots, summary tables, and ellipse paths for polygon clipping. Provides direct access to subsets of interest and offers flexible customization of Venn diagrams. Summary tables are also available when Venn diagram visualization is not suitable.

This package provides tools for the analysis and visualization of animal and plant pedigrees. Analytical methods include equivalent complete generations, generation intervals, effective population size (via inbreeding, coancestry, and demographic approaches), founder and ancestor contributions, partial inbreeding, genetic diversity indices, and additive (A), dominance (D), and epistatic (AA) relationship matrices. Core algorithms â ancestry tracing, topological sorting, inbreeding coefficients, and matrix construction â are implemented in C++ ('Rcpp', RcppArmadillo') and data.table', scaling to pedigrees with over one million individuals. Pedigree graphs are rendered via igraph with support for compact full-sib family display; relationship matrices can be visualized as heatmaps. Supports complex mating systems, including selfing and pedigrees in which the same individual can appear as both sire and dam.

This package implements the novel testing approach by Janitza et al.(2015) <http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-25587-4> for the permutation variable importance measure in a random forest and the PIMP-algorithm by Altmann et al.(2010) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq134>. Janitza et al.(2015) <http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-25587-4> do not use the "standard" permutation variable importance but the cross-validated permutation variable importance for the novel test approach. The cross-validated permutation variable importance is not based on the out-of-bag observations but uses a similar strategy which is inspired by the cross-validation procedure. The novel test approach can be applied for classification trees as well as for regression trees. However, the use of the novel testing approach has not been tested for regression trees so far, so this routine is meant for the expert user only and its current state is rather experimental.

This package provides a collection of statistical tests for martingale difference hypothesis, including automatic portmanteau test (Escansiano and Lobato, 2009) <doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.03.001> and automatic variance ratio test (Kim, 2009) <doi:10.1016/j.frl.2009.04.003>.

This package contains logic for cell-specific gene set scoring of single cell RNA sequencing data.

It provides a comprehensive toolkit for calculating a suite of common vegetation indices (VIs) derived from remote sensing imagery. VIs are essential tools used to quantify vegetation characteristics, such as biomass, leaf area index (LAI) and photosynthetic activity, which are essential parameters in various ecological, agricultural, and environmental studies. Applications of this package include biomass estimation, crop monitoring, forest management, land use and land cover change analysis and climate change studies. For method details see, Deb,D.,Deb,S.,Chakraborty,D.,Singh,J.P.,Singh,A.K.,Dutta,P.and Choudhury,A.(2020)<doi:10.1080/10106049.2020.1756461>. Utilizing this R package, users can effectively extract and analyze critical information from remote sensing imagery, enhancing their comprehension of vegetation dynamics and their importance in global ecosystems. The package includes the function vegetation_indices().