English is the native language for only 5% of the World population. Also, only 17% of us can understand this text. Moreover, the Latin alphabet is the main one for merely 36% of the total. The early computer era, now a very long time ago, was dominated by the US. Due to the proliferation of the internet, smartphones, social media, and other technologies and communication platforms, this is no longer the case. This package replaces base R string functions (such as grep(), tolower(), sprintf(), and strptime()) with ones that fully support the Unicode standards related to natural language and date-time processing. It also fixes some long-standing inconsistencies, and introduces some new, useful features. Thanks to ICU (International Components for Unicode) and stringi', they are fast, reliable, and portable across different platforms.

An R-package for Estimating Semiparametric PH and AFT Mixture Cure Models.

Calculates a modified Simplified Surface Energy Balance Index (SSEBI) and the Evaporative Fraction (EF) using geospatial raster data such as albedo and surface-air temperature difference (TSâ TA). The SSEBI is computed from albedo and TSâ TA to estimate surface moisture and evaporative dynamics, providing a robust assessment of surface dryness while accounting for atmospheric variations. Based on Roerink, Su, and Menenti (2000) <doi:10.1016/S1464-1909(99)00128-8>.

Estimate and understand individual-level variation in transmission. Implements density and cumulative compound Poisson discrete distribution functions (Kremer et al. (2021) <doi:10.1038/s41598-021-93578-x>), as well as functions to calculate infectious disease outbreak statistics given epidemiological parameters on individual-level transmission; including the probability of an outbreak becoming an epidemic/extinct (Kucharski et al. (2020) <doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30144-4>), or the cluster size statistics, e.g. what proportion of cases cause X\% of transmission (Lloyd-Smith et al. (2005) <doi:10.1038/nature04153>).

Perform meta-analysis of single-case experiments, including calculating various effect size measures (SMD, PND, PEM and NAP) and probability combining (additive and multiplicative method), as discussed in Bulte and Onghena (2013) <doi:10.22237/jmasm/1383280020>.

During the preparation of data set(s) one usually performs some sanity checks. The idea is that irrespective of where the checks are performed, they are centralized by this package in order to list all at once with examples if a check failed.

Calculate the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) for monitoring drought, using Artificial Intelligence techniques (SPIGA) and traditional numerical technique Maximum Likelihood (SPIML). For more information see: http://drought.unl.edu/monitoringtools/downloadablespiprogram.aspx.

Given bincount data from single-cell copy number profiling (segmented or unsegmented), estimates ploidy, and uses the ploidy estimate to scale the data to absolute copy numbers. Uses the modular quantogram proposed by Kendall (1986) <doi:10.1002/0471667196.ess2129.pub2>, modified by weighting segments according to confidence, and quantifying confidence in the estimate using a theoretical quantogram. Includes optional fused-lasso segmentation with the algorithm in Johnson (2013) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2012.681238>, using the implementation from glmgen by Arnold, Sadhanala, and Tibshirani.

Non-proportional hazard (NPH) is commonly observed in immuno-oncology studies, where the survival curves of the treatment and control groups show delayed separation. To properly account for NPH, several statistical methods have been developed. One such method is Max-Combo test, which is a straightforward and flexible hypothesis testing method that can simultaneously test for constant, early, middle, and late treatment effects. However, the majority of the Max-Combo test performed in clinical studies are unstratified, ignoring the important prognostic stratification factors. To fill this gap, we have developed an R package for stratified Max-Combo testing that accounts for stratified baseline factors. Our package explores various methods for calculating combined test statistics, estimating joint distributions, and determining the p-values.

This package provides a general framework for statistical simulation, which allows researchers to make use of a wide range of simulation designs with minimal programming effort. The package provides functionality for drawing samples from a distribution or a finite population, for adding outliers and missing values, as well as for visualization of the simulation results. It follows a clear object-oriented design and supports parallel computing to increase computational performance.

Pull data from the STAT Search Analytics API <https://help.getstat.com/knowledgebase/api-services/>. It was developed by the Search Discovery team to help analyze keyword ranking data.

Computes the studentized midrange distribution (pdf, cdf and quantile) and generates random numbers.

This package provides functions for (1) soil water retention (SWC) and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity (Ku) (van Genuchten-Mualem (vGM or vG) [1, 2], Peters-Durner-Iden (PDI) [3, 4, 5], Brooks and Corey (bc) [8]), (2) fitting of parameter for SWC and/or Ku using Shuffled Complex Evolution (SCE) optimisation and (3) calculation of soil hydraulic properties (Ku and soil water contents) based on the simplified evaporation method (SEM) [6, 7]. Main references: [1] van Genuchten (1980) <doi:10.2136/sssaj1980.03615995004400050002x>, [2] Mualem (1976) <doi:10.1029/WR012i003p00513>, [3] Peters (2013) <doi:10.1002/wrcr.20548>, [4] Iden and Durner (2013) <doi:10.1002/2014WR015937>, [5] Peters (2014) <doi:10.1002/2014WR015937>, [6] Wind G. P. (1966), [7] Peters and Durner (2008) <doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.04.016> and [8] Brooks and Corey (1964).

An extension of the Fisher Scoring Algorithm to combine PLS regression with GLM estimation in the multivariate context. Covariates can also be grouped in themes.

Facilitates extraction of geospatial data from the Office for National Statistics Open Geography and nomis Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Simplifies process of querying nomis datasets <https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/> and extracting desired datasets in dataframe format. Extracts area shapefiles at chosen resolution from Office for National Statistics Open Geography <https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/>.

Use behavioural variables to score activity and infer sleep from bouts of immobility. It is primarily designed to score sleep in fruit flies from Drosophila Activity Monitor (TriKinetics) and Ethoscope data. It implements sleep scoring using the "five-minute rule" (Hendricks et al. (2000) <DOI:10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80877-6>), activity classification for Ethoscopes (Geissmann et al. (2017) <DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.2003026>) and a new algorithm to detect when animals are dead.

Estimation of model parameters for marked Hawkes process. Accounts for missing data in the estimation of the parameters. Technical details found in (Tucker et al., 2019 <DOI:10.1016/j.spasta.2018.12.004>).

This package provides functions to estimate, predict and interpolate areal data. For estimation and prediction we assume areal data is an average of an underlying continuous spatial process as in Moraga et al. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.spasta.2017.04.006>, Johnson et al. (2020) <doi:10.1186/s12942-020-00200-w>, and Wilson and Wakefield (2020) <doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxy041>. The interpolation methodology is (mostly) based on Goodchild and Lam (1980, ISSN:01652273).

This package provides tools for reading, visualising and processing Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy data. The package includes methods for spectral fitting: Wilson (2021) <DOI:10.1002/mrm.28385>, Wilson (2025) <DOI:10.1002/mrm.30462> and spectral alignment: Wilson (2018) <DOI:10.1002/mrm.27605>.

This package provides a web-based shiny interface for the StepReg package enables stepwise regression analysis across linear, generalized linear (including logistic, Poisson, Gamma, and negative binomial), and Cox models. It supports forward, backward, bidirectional, and best-subset selection under a range of criteria. The package also supports stepwise regression to multivariate settings, allowing multiple dependent variables to be modeled simultaneously. Users can explore and combine multiple selection strategies and criteria to optimize model selection. For enhanced robustness, the package offers optional randomized forward selection to reduce overfitting, and a data-splitting workflow for more reliable post-selection inference. Additional features include logging and visualization of the selection process, as well as the ability to export results in common formats.

Adds support for R startup configuration via .Renviron.d and .Rprofile.d directories in addition to .Renviron and .Rprofile files. This makes it possible to keep private / secret environment variables separate from other environment variables. It also makes it easier to share specific startup settings by simply copying a file to a directory.

Basic and model-based soil physical analyses.

Privacy protected raster maps can be created from spatial point data. Protection methods include smoothing of dichotomous variables by de Jonge and de Wolf (2016) <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45381-1_9>, continuous variables by de Wolf and de Jonge (2018) <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99771-1_23>, suppressing revealing values and a generalization of the quad tree method by Suñé, Rovira, Ibáñez and Farré (2017) <doi:10.2901/EUROSTAT.C2017.001>.

Approximate Bayesian regularization using Gaussian approximations. The input is a vector of estimates and a Gaussian error covariance matrix of the key parameters. Bayesian shrinkage is then applied to obtain parsimonious solutions. The method is described on Karimova, van Erp, Leenders, and Mulder (2024) <DOI:10.31234/osf.io/2g8qm>. Gibbs samplers are used for model fitting. The shrinkage priors that are supported are Gaussian (ridge) priors, Laplace (lasso) priors (Park and Casella, 2008 <DOI:10.1198/016214508000000337>), and horseshoe priors (Carvalho, et al., 2010; <DOI:10.1093/biomet/asq017>). These priors include an option for grouped regularization of different subsets of parameters (Meier et al., 2008; <DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2007.00627.x>). F priors are used for the penalty parameters lambda^2 (Mulder and Pericchi, 2018 <DOI:10.1214/17-BA1092>). This correspond to half-Cauchy priors on lambda (Carvalho, Polson, Scott, 2010 <DOI:10.1093/biomet/asq017>).