The word Meme was originated from the book, The Selfish Gene', authored by Richard Dawkins (1976). It is a unit of culture that is passed from one generation to another and correlates to the gene, the unit of physical heredity. The internet memes are captioned photos that are intended to be funny, ridiculous. Memes behave like infectious viruses and travel from person to person quickly through social media. The meme package allows users to make custom memes.

An R interface for the Java Machine Learning for Language Toolkit (mallet) <http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/> to estimate probabilistic topic models, such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation. We can use the R package to read textual data into mallet from R objects, run the Java implementation of mallet directly in R, and extract results as R objects. The Mallet toolkit has many functions, this wrapper focuses on the topic modeling sub-package written by David Mimno. The package uses the rJava package to connect to a JVM.

Create tile grid maps, which are like choropleth maps except each region is represented with equal visual space.

Mixed, low-rank, and sparse multivariate regression ('mixedLSR') provides tools for performing mixture regression when the coefficient matrix is low-rank and sparse. mixedLSR allows subgroup identification by alternating optimization with simulated annealing to encourage global optimum convergence. This method is data-adaptive, automatically performing parameter selection to identify low-rank substructures in the coefficient matrix.

Correct identification and handling of missing data is one of the most important steps in any analysis. To aid this process, mde provides a very easy to use yet robust framework to quickly get an idea of where the missing data lies and therefore find the most appropriate action to take. Graham WJ (2009) <doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.58.110405.085530>.

This package implements an algorithm for computing multiple sparse principal components of a dataset. The method is based on Cory-Wright and Pauphilet "Sparse PCA with Multiple Principal Components" (2022) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2209.14790>. The algorithm uses an iterative deflation heuristic with a truncated power method applied at each iteration to compute sparse principal components with controlled sparsity.

This package provides exact and approximate algorithms for the horseshoe prior in linear regression models, which were proposed by Johndrow et al. (2020) <https://www.jmlr.org/papers/v21/19-536.html>.

Multiple moderation analysis for two-instance repeated measures designs, with up to three simultaneous moderators (dichotomous and/or continuous) with additive or multiplicative relationship. Includes analyses of simple slopes and conditional effects at (automatically determined or manually set) values of the moderator(s), as well as an implementation of the Johnson-Neyman procedure for determining regions of significance in single moderator models. Based on Montoya, A. K. (2018) "Moderation analysis in two-instance repeated measures designs: Probing methods and multiple moderator models" <doi:10.3758/s13428-018-1088-6> .

This package provides essential tools for the pre-processing techniques of matching and weighting multiply imputed datasets. The package includes functions for matching within and across multiply imputed datasets using various methods, estimating weights for units in the imputed datasets using multiple weighting methods, calculating causal effect estimates in each matched or weighted dataset using parametric or non-parametric statistical models, and pooling the resulting estimates according to Rubin's rules (please see <https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2021/RJ-2021-073/> for more details).

Implementation of adaptive assessment procedures based on Knowledge Space Theory (KST, Doignon & Falmagne, 1999 <ISBN:9783540645016>) and Formal Psychological Assessment (FPA, Spoto, Stefanutti & Vidotto, 2010 <doi:10.3758/BRM.42.1.342>) frameworks. An adaptive assessment is a type of evaluation that adjusts the difficulty and nature of subsequent questions based on the test taker's responses to previous ones. The package contains functions to perform and simulate an adaptive assessment. Moreover, it is integrated with two Shiny interfaces, making it both accessible and user-friendly. The package has been partially funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU and by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4, Component 2, Investment 1.5, project â RAISE - Robotics and AI for Socio-economic Empowermentâ (ECS00000035).

Microbial growth is often measured by growth curves i.e. a table of population sizes and times of measurements. This package allows to use such growth curve data to determine the duration of "microbial lag phase" i.e. the time needed for microbes to restart divisions. It implements the most commonly used methods to calculate the lag duration, these methods are discussed and described in Opalek et.al. 2022. Citation: Smug, B. J., Opalek, M., Necki, M., & Wloch-Salamon, D. (2024). Microbial lag calculator: A shiny-based application and an R package for calculating the duration of microbial lag phase. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15, 301â 307 <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14269>.

Multivariate joint models of longitudinal and time-to-event data based on functional principal components implemented with bamlss'. Implementation for Volkmann, Umlauf, Greven (2023) <arXiv:2311.06409>.

The 1001 time series from the M-competition (Makridakis et al. 1982) <DOI:10.1002/for.3980010202> and the 3003 time series from the IJF-M3 competition (Makridakis and Hibon, 2000) <DOI:10.1016/S0169-2070(00)00057-1>.

Simulates respiratory virus epidemics using meta-population compartmental models following Fadikar et. al. (2025) <doi:10.1101/2025.05.05.25327021>. MetaRVM implements a stochastic SEIRD (Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered-Dead) framework with demographic stratification by age, race, and geographic zones. It supports complex epidemiological scenarios including asymptomatic and presymptomatic transmission, hospitalization dynamics, vaccination schedules, and time-varying contact patterns via mixing matrices.

Aggregates a set of trees with the same leaves to create a consensus tree. The trees are typically obtained via hierarchical clustering, hence the hclust format is used to encode both the aggregated trees and the final consensus tree. The method is exact and proven to be O(nqlog(n)), n being the individuals and q being the number of trees to aggregate.

This package contains functions for performing Mokken scale analysis on test and questionnaire data. It includes an automated item selection algorithm, and various checks of model assumptions.

Bayesian estimation of inverse variance weighted (IVW), Burgess et al. (2013) <doi:10.1002/gepi.21758>, and MR-Egger, Bowden et al. (2015) <doi:10.1093/ije/dyv080>, summary data models for Mendelian randomization analyses.

This package implements a high dimensional mediation analysis algorithm using Local False Discovery Rates. The methodology is described in Roy and Zhang (2024) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2402.13933>.

The goal of Momocs is to provide a complete, convenient, reproducible and open-source toolkit for 2D morphometrics. It includes most common 2D morphometrics approaches on outlines, open outlines, configurations of landmarks, traditional morphometrics, and facilities for data preparation, manipulation and visualization with a consistent grammar throughout. It allows reproducible, complex morphometrics analyses and other morphometrics approaches should be easy to plug in, or develop from, on top of this canvas. Companion paper is published in JSS Bonhomme V, Picq S, Gaucherel C and Claude J (2014) <doi:10.18637/jss.v056.i13>. Now superseded by Momocs2 and the MomX ecosystem. Momocs should be considered retired and will no longer be supported someday.

Various utilities for the Multiplicative Multinomial distribution.

Modelling Multivariate Binary Data with Blocks of Specific One-Factor Distribution. Variables are grouped into independent blocks. Each variable is described by two continuous parameters (its marginal probability and its dependency strength with the other block variables), and one binary parameter (positive or negative dependency). Model selection consists in the estimation of the repartition of the variables into blocks. It is carried out by the maximization of the BIC criterion by a deterministic (faster) algorithm or by a stochastic (more time consuming but optimal) algorithm. Tool functions facilitate the model interpretation.

Implementation of two p-value combination techniques (inverse normal and Fisher methods). A vignette is provided to explain how to perform a meta-analysis from two independent RNA-seq experiments.

Simultaneously estimates sparse regression coefficients and response network structure in multivariate models with missing data. Unlike traditional approaches requiring imputation, handles missingness natively through unbiased estimating equations (MCAR/MAR compatible). Employs dual L1 regularization with automated selection via cross-validation or information criteria. Includes parallel computation, warm starts, adaptive grids, publication-ready visualizations, and prediction methods. Ideal for genomics, neuroimaging, and multi-trait studies with incomplete high-dimensional outcomes. See Zeng et al. (2025) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2507.05990>.

Perform calculations for the WHO International Reference Reagents for the microbiome. Using strain, species or genera abundance tables generated through analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing or shotgun sequencing which included a reference reagent. This package will calculate measures of sensitivity, False positive relative abundance, diversity, and similarity based on mean average abundances with respect to the reference reagent.