Extracts and parses structured metadata ('YAML or TOML') from the beginning of text documents. Front matter is a common pattern in Quarto documents, R Markdown documents, static site generators, documentation systems, content management tools and even Python and R scripts where metadata is placed at the top of a document, separated from the main content by delimiter fences.

This data contains a large variety of information on players and their current attributes on Fantasy Premier League <https://fantasy.premierleague.com/>. In particular, it contains a `next_gw_points` (next gameweek points) value for each player given their attributes in the current week. Rows represent player-gameweeks, i.e. for each player there is a row for each gameweek. This makes the data suitable for modelling a player's next gameweek points, given attributes such as form, total points, and cost at the current gameweek. This data can therefore be used to create Fantasy Premier League bots that may use a machine learning algorithm and a linear programming solver (for example) to return the best possible transfers and team to pick for each gameweek, thereby fully automating the decision making process in Fantasy Premier League. This function simply supplies the required data for such a task.

This package creates publication-ready forest plots from any tabular data containing point estimates and confidence intervals. Suitable for visualising results from regression models, meta-analyses, subgroup analyses, or any comparative study. Supports group and subgroup headings, summary estimates displayed as diamonds, grouped estimates with automatic colour and shape mapping, vertical dodging of multiple estimates within the same row, customisable text columns alongside the plot, and optional row striping. Provides a helper to export plots to PDF, PNG, SVG, or TIFF. Built on tinyplot for clean, consistent visual styling with a minimal dependency footprint.

This package provides tools to work with the Flexible Dirichlet distribution. The main features are an E-M algorithm for computing the maximum likelihood estimate of the parameter vector and a function based on conditional bootstrap to estimate its asymptotic variance-covariance matrix. It contains also functions to plot graphs, to generate random observations and to handle compositional data.

This package performs the Fairlie decomposition for nonlinear models (logit models). This function breaks down the difference in average outcomes between two groups into the part explained by group differences in observable characteristics and the unexplained part (Fairlie 1999 <doi:10.1086/209914>; Fairlie 2005 <doi:10.3233/JEM-2005-0259>).

Computes and plots prediction intervals for numerical data or prediction sets for categorical data using prior information. Empirical Bayes procedures to estimate the prior information from multi-group data are included. See, e.g.,Bersson and Hoff (2022) <arXiv:2204.08122> "Optimal Conformal Prediction for Small Areas".

This package provides functions for range estimation in birds based on Pennycuick (2008) and Pennycuick (1975), Flight program which compliments Pennycuick (2008) requires manual entry of birds which can be tedious when there are thousands of birds to estimate. Implemented are two ODE methods discussed in Pennycuick (1975) and time-marching computation method "constant muscle mass" as in Pennycuick (1998). See Pennycuick (1975, ISBN:978-0-12-249405-5), Pennycuick (1998) <doi:10.1006/jtbi.1997.0572>, and Pennycuick (2008, ISBN:9780080557816).

This package provides functions for estimating spectral density operator of functional time series (FTS) and comparing the spectral density operator of two functional time series, in a way that allows detection of differences of the spectral density operator in frequencies and along the curve length. A description of the implemented tests can be found in the paper Tavakoli & Panaretos (2016) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2016.1147355>.

Comparisons of floating point numbers are problematic due to errors associated with the binary representation of decimal numbers. Despite being aware of these problems, people still use numerical methods that fail to account for these and other rounding errors (this pitfall is the first to be highlighted in Circle 1 of Burns (2012) The R Inferno <https://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf>). This package provides new relational operators useful for performing floating point number comparisons with a set tolerance.

Designed to streamline the process of analyzing genotyping data from Fluidigm machines, this package offers a suite of tools for data handling and analysis. It includes functions for converting Fluidigm data to format used by PLINK', estimating errors, calculating pairwise similarities, determining pairwise similarity loci, and generating a similarity matrix.

Scrapes data from Fitbit <http://www.fitbit.com>. This does not use the official API, but instead uses the API that the web dashboard uses to generate the graphs displayed on the dashboard after login at <http://www.fitbit.com>.

Algorithms for fuzzy clustering, cluster validity indices and plots for cluster validity and visualizing fuzzy clustering results.

This package implements methods for multiple change point detection in multivariate time series with non-stationary dynamics and cross-correlations. The methodology is based on a model in which each component has a fluctuating mean represented by a random walk with occasional abrupt shifts, combined with a stationary vector autoregressive structure to capture temporal and cross-sectional dependence. The framework is broadly applicable to correlated multivariate sequences in which large, sudden shifts occur in all or subsets of components and are the primary targets of interest, whereas small, smooth fluctuations are not. Although random walks are used as a modeling device, they provide a flexible approximation for a wide class of slowly varying or locally smooth dynamics, enabling robust performance beyond the strict random walk setting.

New approaches to parallel coordinates plots for multivariate data visualization, including applications to clustering, outlier hunting and regression diagnostics. Includes general functions for multivariate nonparametric density and regression estimation, using parallel computation.

This package provides a set of function for clustering data observation with hybrid method Fuzzy ART and K-Means by Sengupta, Ghosh & Dan (2011) <doi:10.1080/0951192X.2011.602362>.

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production and Cost Functions. Two specifications are available: the error components specification with time-varying efficiencies (Battese and Coelli, 1992, <doi:10.1007/BF00158774>) and a model specification in which the firm effects are directly influenced by a number of variables (Battese and Coelli, 1995, <doi:10.1007/BF01205442>).

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) functions for various tasks that are beyond the beta stage and way past the alpha stage. Currently, options are available for weights, restrictions, classical scaling or principal coordinate analysis, transformations (linear, power, Box-Cox, spline, ordinal), outlier mitigation (rdop), out-of-sample estimation (predict), negative dissimilarities, fast and faster executions with low memory footprints, penalized restrictions, cross-validation-based penalty selection, supplementary variable estimation (explain), additive constant estimation, mixed measurement level distance calculation, restricted classical scaling, etc. More will come in the future. References. Busing (2024) "A Simple Population Size Estimator for Local Minima Applied to Multidimensional Scaling". Manuscript submitted for publication. Busing (2025) "Node Localization by Multidimensional Scaling with Iterative Majorization". Manuscript submitted for publication. Busing (2025) "Faster Multidimensional Scaling". Manuscript in preparation. Barroso and Busing (2025) "e-RDOP, Relative Density-Based Outlier Probabilities, Extended to Proximity Mapping". Manuscript submitted for publication.

Implementation of the Interval Testing Procedure for functional data in different frameworks (i.e., one or two-population frameworks, functional linear models) by means of different basis expansions (i.e., B-spline, Fourier, and phase-amplitude Fourier). The current version of the package requires functional data evaluated on a uniform grid; it automatically projects each function on a chosen functional basis; it performs the entire family of multivariate tests; and, finally, it provides the matrix of the p-values of the previous tests and the vector of the corrected p-values. The functional basis, the coupled or uncoupled scenario, and the kind of test can be chosen by the user. The package provides also a plotting function creating a graphical output of the procedure: the p-value heat-map, the plot of the corrected p-values, and the plot of the functional data.

The funFEM algorithm (Bouveyron et al., 2014) allows to cluster functional data by modeling the curves within a common and discriminative functional subspace.

This package performs family-based association tests with a polytomous outcome under 2-locus and 1-locus models defined by some design matrix.

Efficient computation of the Liu regression coefficient paths, Liu-related statistics and information criteria for a grid of the regularization parameter. The computations are based on the C++ library Armadillo through the R package Rcpp'.

The function forAD() implements the adaptive forecasting procedure of Giraitis, Kapetanios and Price (2013) <doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2013.04.003>. The method can be iterated (e.g., adapt²) and combined with autoregressive (AR) forecasting. These approaches are computationally simple and adapt automatically to structural changes without requiring prior specification of the underlying data-generating process. They are applicable to both stationary and non-stationary time series. The numerical and graphical outputs assist in selecting an appropriate forecasting method, particularly one that minimises mean squared forecast error (MSFE) and yields uncorrelated forecast errors.

Statistical hypothesis testing methods for inferring model-free functional dependency using asymptotic chi-squared or exact distributions. Functional test statistics are asymmetric and functionally optimal, unique from other related statistics. Tests in this package reveal evidence for causality based on the causality-by- functionality principle. They include asymptotic functional chi-squared tests (Zhang & Song 2013) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1311.2707>, an adapted functional chi-squared test (Kumar & Song 2022) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btac206>, and an exact functional test (Zhong & Song 2019) <doi:10.1109/TCBB.2018.2809743> (Nguyen et al. 2020) <doi:10.24963/ijcai.2020/372>. The normalized functional chi-squared test was used by Best Performer NMSUSongLab in HPN-DREAM (DREAM8) Breast Cancer Network Inference Challenges (Hill et al. 2016) <doi:10.1038/nmeth.3773>. A function index (Zhong & Song 2019) <doi:10.1186/s12920-019-0565-9> (Kumar et al. 2018) <doi:10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621502> derived from the functional test statistic offers a new effect size measure for the strength of functional dependency, a better alternative to conditional entropy in many aspects. For continuous data, these tests offer an advantage over regression analysis when a parametric functional form cannot be assumed; for categorical data, they provide a novel means to assess directional dependency not possible with symmetrical Pearson's chi-squared or Fisher's exact tests.

Efficient algorithms for performing, updating, and removing rows or columns from the QR decomposition, R decomposition, or the inverse of the R decomposition of a matrix as rows or columns are added or removed. It also includes functions for solving linear systems of equations, normal equations for linear regression models, and normal equations for linear regression with a RIDGE penalty. For a detailed introduction to these methods, the monograph Matrix Computations (2013, <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-05089-8>) for complete introduction to the methods.