This package provides a general framework for constructing variable importance plots from various types of machine learning models in R. Aside from some standard model- specific variable importance measures, this package also provides model- agnostic approaches that can be applied to any supervised learning algorithm. These include 1) an efficient permutation-based variable importance measure, 2) variable importance based on Shapley values (Strumbelj and Kononenko, 2014) <doi:10.1007/s10115-013-0679-x>, and 3) the variance-based approach described in Greenwell et al. (2018) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1805.04755>. A variance-based method for quantifying the relative strength of interaction effects is also included (see the previous reference for details).

Collection of common methods to determine growing season length in a simple manner. Start and end dates of the vegetation periods are calculated solely based on daily mean temperatures and the day of the year.

Allows registered VectorSurv <https://vectorsurv.org/> users access to data through the VectorSurv API <https://api.vectorsurv.org/>. Additionally provides functions for analysis and visualization.

Visualizing of distributions of covariance matrices. The package implements the methodology described in Tokuda, T., Goodrich, B., Van Mechelen, I., Gelman, A., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2012) <https://sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/research/unpublished/Visualization.pdf>.

Utilizes multiple variable selection methods to estimate Average Treatment Effect.

Applying Monte Carlo permutation to generate pointwise variogram envelope and checking for spatial dependence at different scales using permutation test. Empirical Brown's method and Fisher's method are used to compute overall p-value for hypothesis test.

Position adjustments for ggplot2 to implement "visualize as you randomize" principles, which can be especially useful when plotting experimental data.

Abstract descriptions of (yet) unobserved variables.

This package provides low-level access to GDAL functionality. GDAL is the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library a translator for raster and vector geospatial data formats that presents a single raster abstract data model and single vector abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats <https://gdal.org/>. This package is focussed on providing exactly and only what GDAL does, to enable developing further tools.

Three steps variable selection procedure based on random forests. Initially developed to handle high dimensional data (for which number of variables largely exceeds number of observations), the package is very versatile and can treat most dimensions of data, for regression and supervised classification problems. First step is dedicated to eliminate irrelevant variables from the dataset. Second step aims to select all variables related to the response for interpretation purpose. Third step refines the selection by eliminating redundancy in the set of variables selected by the second step, for prediction purpose. Genuer, R. Poggi, J.-M. and Tuleau-Malot, C. (2015) <https://journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-2015-018/>.

This package implements a maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) method for estimation and prediction of Gaussian process-based spatially varying coefficient (SVC) models (Dambon et al. (2021a) <doi:10.1016/j.spasta.2020.100470>). Covariance tapering (Furrer et al. (2006) <doi:10.1198/106186006X132178>) can be applied such that the method scales to large data. Further, it implements a joint variable selection of the fixed and random effects (Dambon et al. (2021b) <doi:10.1080/13658816.2022.2097684>). The package and its capabilities are described in (Dambon et al. (2021c) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2106.02364>).

Calculates voter transitions comparing two elections, using the function solve.QP() in package quadprog'.

Machine learning utilities for fast vectorized model training. Methods are based on standard statistical learning references such as Hastie et al. (2009) <doi:10.1007/978-0-387-84858-7>.

The biomarker data set by Vermeulen et al. (2009) <doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(09)70154-8> is provided. The data source, however, is by Ruijter et al. (2013) <doi:10.1016/j.ymeth.2012.08.011>. The original data set may be downloaded from <https://medischebiologie.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/qpcrdatamethods.zip>. This data set is for a real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) experiment that comprises the raw fluorescence data of 24,576 amplification curves. This data set comprises 59 genes of interest and 5 reference genes. Each gene was assessed on 366 neuroblastoma complementary DNA (cDNA) samples and on 18 standard dilution series samples (10-fold 5-point dilution series x 3 replicates + no template controls (NTC) x 3 replicates).

This package provides a set of functions for data transformations. Transformations are performed on character and numeric data. As the scope of the package is within Student Analytics, there are functions focused around the academic year.

This package provides an interface to the VK API <https://vk.com/dev/methods>. VK <https://vk.com/> is the largest European online social networking service, based in Russia.

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

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>.

Various methods to count ballots in voting systems are provided. Functions to check validity of ballots are also provided to ensure flexibility.

Handling of vegetation data from different sources ( Turboveg 2.0 <https://www.synbiosys.alterra.nl/turboveg/>; the German national repository <https://www.vegetweb.de> and others. Taxonomic harmonization (given appropriate taxonomic lists, e.g. the Euro+Med list <https://eurosl.infinitenature.org>).

The base class VirtualArray is defined, which acts as a wrapper around lists allowing users to fold arbitrary sequential data into n-dimensional, R-style virtual arrays. The derived XArray class is defined to be used for homogeneous lists that contain a single class of objects. The RasterArray and SfArray classes enable the use of stacked spatial data instead of lists.

This package provides a framework to infer causality on a pair of time series of real numbers based on variable-lag Granger causality and transfer entropy. Typically, Granger causality and transfer entropy have an assumption of a fixed and constant time delay between the cause and effect. However, for a non-stationary time series, this assumption is not true. For example, considering two time series of velocity of person A and person B where B follows A. At some time, B stops tying his shoes, then running to catch up A. The fixed-lag assumption is not true in this case. We propose a framework that allows variable-lags between cause and effect in Granger causality and transfer entropy to allow them to deal with variable-lag non-stationary time series. Please see Chainarong Amornbunchornvej, Elena Zheleva, and Tanya Berger-Wolf (2021) <doi:10.1145/3441452> when referring to this package in publications.

An algorithm for nonlinear global optimization based on the variable neighbourhood trust region search (VNTRS) algorithm proposed by Bierlaire et al. (2009) "A Heuristic for Nonlinear Global Optimization" <doi:10.1287/ijoc.1090.0343>. The algorithm combines variable neighbourhood exploration with a trust-region framework to efficiently search the solution space. It can terminate a local search early if the iterates are converging toward a previously visited local optimum or if further improvement within the current region is unlikely. In addition to global optimization, the algorithm can also be applied to identify multiple local optima.

This package provides helper functions and wrappers to simplify authentication, data retrieval, and result processing from the VALD APIs'. Designed to streamline integration for analysts and researchers working with VALD's external APIs'. For further documentation on integrating with VALD APIs', see: <https://support.vald.com/hc/en-au/articles/23415335574553-How-to-integrate-with-VALD-APIs>. For a step-by-step guide to using this package, see: <https://support.vald.com/hc/en-au/articles/48730811824281-A-guide-to-using-the-valdr-R-package>.