Estimates parameters in Mixture Transition Distribution (MTD) models, a class of high-order Markov chains. The set of relevant pasts (lags) is selected using either the Bayesian Information Criterion or the Forward Stepwise and Cut algorithms. Other model parameters (e.g. transition probabilities and oscillations) can be estimated via maximum likelihood estimation or the Expectation-Maximization algorithm. Additionally, hdMTD includes a perfect sampling algorithm that generates samples of an MTD model from its invariant distribution. For theory, see Ost & Takahashi (2023) <http://jmlr.org/papers/v24/22-0266.html>.

Facilitates access to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, a comprehensive global inventory of species at risk of extinction. This package streamlines the process of determining conservation status by matching species names with Red List data, providing tools to easily query and retrieve conservation statuses. Designed to support biodiversity research and conservation planning, this package relies on data from the iucnrdata package, available on GitHub <https://github.com/PaulESantos/iucnrdata>. To install the data package, use pak::pak('PaulESantos/iucnrdata').

Volume prediction is one of challenging task in forestry research. This package is a comprehensive toolset designed for the fitting and validation of various linear and nonlinear allometric equations (Linear, Log-Linear, Inverse, Quadratic, Cubic, Compound, Power and Exponential) used in the prediction of conifer tree volume. This package is particularly useful for forestry professionals, researchers, and resource managers engaged in assessing and estimating the volume of coniferous trees. This package has been developed using the algorithm of Sharma et al. (2017) <doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.33786.62407>.

Option is a one of the financial derivatives and its pricing is an important problem in practice. The process of stock prices are represented as Geometric Brownian motion [Black (1973) <doi:10.1086/260062>] or jump diffusion processes [Kou (2002) <doi:10.1287/mnsc.48.8.1086.166>]. In this package, algorithms and visualizations are implemented by Monte Carlo method in order to calculate European option price for three equations by Geometric Brownian motion and jump diffusion processes and furthermore a model that presents jumps among companies affect each other.

Latent group structures are a common challenge in panel data analysis. Disregarding group-level heterogeneity can introduce bias. Conversely, estimating individual coefficients for each cross-sectional unit is inefficient and may lead to high uncertainty. This package addresses the issue of unobservable group structures by implementing the pairwise adaptive group fused Lasso (PAGFL) by Mehrabani (2023) <doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2022.12.002>. PAGFL identifies latent group structures and group-specific coefficients in a single step. On top of that, we extend the PAGFL to time-varying coefficient functions.

Convenient tools for exchanging files securely from within R. By encrypting the content safe passage of files (shipment) can be provided by common but insecure carriers such as ftp and email. Based on asymmetric cryptography no management of shared secrets is needed to make a secure shipment as long as authentic public keys are available. Public keys used for secure shipments may also be obtained from external providers as part of the overall process. Transportation of files will require that relevant services such as ftp and email servers are available.

Handling of behavioural data from the Ethoscope platform (Geissmann, Garcia Rodriguez, Beckwith, French, Jamasb and Gilestro (2017) <DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.2003026>). Ethoscopes (<https://giorgiogilestro.notion.site/Ethoscope-User-Manual-a9739373ae9f4840aa45b277f2f0e3a7>) are an open source/open hardware framework made of interconnected raspberry pis (<https://www.raspberrypi.org>) designed to quantify the behaviour of multiple small animals in a distributed and real-time fashion. The default tracking algorithm records primary variables such as xy coordinates, dimensions and speed. This package is part of the rethomics framework <https://rethomics.github.io/>.

mastR is an R package designed for automated screening of signatures of interest for specific research questions. The package is developed for generating refined lists of signature genes from multiple group comparisons based on the results from edgeR and limma differential expression (DE) analysis workflow. It also takes into account the background noise of tissue-specificity, which is often ignored by other marker generation tools. This package is particularly useful for the identification of group markers in various biological and medical applications, including cancer research and developmental biology.

This package provides a compendium of new geometries, coordinate systems, statistical transformations, scales and fonts for ggplot2, including splines, 1d and 2d densities, univariate average shifted histograms, a new map coordinate system based on the PROJ.4-library along with geom_cartogram() that mimics the original functionality of geom_map(), formatters for "bytes", a stat_stepribbon() function, increased plotly compatibility and the StateFace open source font ProPublica. Further new functionality includes lollipop charts, dumbbell charts, the ability to encircle points and coordinate-system-based text annotations.

This package works as a prelude replacement for Haskell, providing more functionality and types out of the box than the standard prelude (such as common data types like ByteString and Text), as well as removing common ``gotchas'', like partial functions and lazy I/O. The guiding principle here is:

• If something is safe to use in general and has no expected naming conflicts, expose it.

• If something should not always be used, or has naming conflicts, expose it from another module in the hierarchy.

Bayesian approaches for analyzing multivariate data in ecology. Estimation is performed using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods via Three. JAGS types of models may be fitted: 1) With explanatory variables only, boral fits independent column Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) to each column of the response matrix; 2) With latent variables only, boral fits a purely latent variable model for model-based unconstrained ordination; 3) With explanatory and latent variables, boral fits correlated column GLMs with latent variables to account for any residual correlation between the columns of the response matrix.

P-values and no/lowest observed (adverse) effect concentration values derived from the closure principle computational approach test (Lehmann, R. et al. (2015) <doi:10.1007/s00477-015-1079-4>) are provided. The package contains functions to generate intersection hypotheses according to the closure principle (Bretz, F., Hothorn, T., Westfall, P. (2010) <doi:10.1201/9781420010909>), an implementation of the computational approach test (Ching-Hui, C., Nabendu, P., Jyh-Jiuan, L. (2010) <doi:10.1080/03610918.2010.508860>) and the combination of both, that is, the closure principle computational approach test.

This package provides a collection of acceleration schemes for proximal gradient methods for estimating penalized regression parameters described in Goldstein, Studer, and Baraniuk (2016) <arXiv:1411.3406>. Schemes such as Fast Iterative Shrinkage and Thresholding Algorithm (FISTA) by Beck and Teboulle (2009) <doi:10.1137/080716542> and the adaptive stepsize rule introduced in Wright, Nowak, and Figueiredo (2009) <doi:10.1109/TSP.2009.2016892> are included. You provide the objective function and proximal mappings, and it takes care of the issues like stepsize selection, acceleration, and stopping conditions for you.

An ensemble of algorithms that enable the clustering of networks and data matrices (such as counts, categorical or continuous) with different type of generative models. Model selection and clustering is performed in combination by optimizing the Integrated Classification Likelihood (which is equivalent to minimizing the description length). Several models are available such as: Stochastic Block Model, degree corrected Stochastic Block Model, Mixtures of Multinomial, Latent Block Model. The optimization is performed thanks to a combination of greedy local search and a genetic algorithm (see <arXiv:2002:11577> for more details).

This is a stochastic framework that combines biochemical reaction networks with extended Kalman filter and Rauch-Tung-Striebel smoothing. This framework allows to investigate the dynamics of cell differentiation from high-dimensional clonal tracking data subject to measurement noise, false negative errors, and systematically unobserved cell types. Our tool can provide statistical support to biologists in gene therapy clonal tracking studies for a deeper understanding of clonal reconstitution dynamics. Further details on the methods can be found in L. Del Core et al., (2022) <doi:10.1101/2022.07.08.499353>.

Data are partitioned (clustered) into k clusters "around medoids", which is a more robust version of K-means implemented in the function pam() in the cluster package. The PAM algorithm is described in Kaufman and Rousseeuw (1990) <doi:10.1002/9780470316801>. Please refer to the pam() function documentation for more references. Clustered data is plotted as a split heatmap allowing visualisation of representative "group-clusters" (medoids) in the data as separated fractions of the graph while those "sub-clusters" are visualised as a traditional heatmap based on hierarchical clustering.

Conduct dsep tests (piecewise SEM) of a directed, or mixed, acyclic graph without latent variables (but possibly with implicitly marginalized or conditioned latent variables that create dependent errors) based on linear, generalized linear, or additive modelswith or without a nesting structure for the data. Also included are functions to do desp tests step-by-step,exploratory path analysis, and Monte Carlo X2 probabilities. This package accompanies Shipley, B, (2026).Cause and Correlation in Biology: A User's Guide to Path Analysis, StructuralEquations and Causal Inference (3rd edition). Cambridge University Press.

Facilitate the management of data from knowledge resources that are frequently used alone or together in research environments. In TKCat', knowledge resources are manipulated as modeled database (MDB) objects. These objects provide access to the data tables along with a general description of the resource and a detail data model documenting the tables, their fields and their relationships. These MDBs are then gathered in catalogs that can be easily explored an shared. Finally, TKCat provides tools to easily subset, filter and combine MDBs and create new catalogs suited for specific needs.

Assess the significance of identified clusters and estimates the true number of clusters by comparing the explained variation due to the clustering from the original data to that produced by clustering a unimodal reference distribution which preserves the covariance structure in the data. The reference distribution is generated using kernel density estimation and a Gaussian copula framework. A dimension reduction strategy and sparse covariance estimation optimize this method for the high-dimensional, low-sample size setting. This method is described in Helgeson, Vock, and Bair (2021) <doi:10.1111/biom.13376>.

This package provides a collection of measures for measuring ecological diversity. Ecological diversity comes in two flavors: alpha diversity measures the diversity within a single site or sample, and beta diversity measures the diversity across two sites or samples. This package overlaps considerably with other R packages such as vegan', gUniFrac', betapart', and fossil'. We also include a wide range of functions that are implemented in software outside the R ecosystem, such as scipy', Mothur', and scikit-bio'. The implementations here are designed to be basic and clear to the reader.

An interface to the Briq API <https://briq.github.io>. Briq is a tool that aims to promote employee engagement by helping employees recognize and reward each other. Employees can praise and thank one another (for achieving a company goal, for example) by giving virtual credits (known as briqs or bqs') that can be redeemed for various rewards. The Briq API lets you create, read, update and delete users, user groups, transactions and messages. This package provides functions that simplify getting the users, user groups and transactions of your organization into R.

The goal of cvsem is to provide functions that allow for comparing Structural Equation Models (SEM) using cross-validation. Users can specify multiple SEMs using lavaan syntax. cvsem computes the Kullback Leibler (KL) Divergence between 1) the model implied covariance matrix estimated from the training data and 2) the sample covariance matrix estimated from the test data described in Cudeck, Robert & Browne (1983) <doi:10.18637/jss.v048.i02>. The KL Divergence is computed for each of the specified SEMs allowing for the models to be compared based on their prediction errors.

This package provides a specific and comprehensive framework for the analyses of time-to-event data in agriculture. Fit non-parametric and parametric time-to-event models. Compare time-to-event curves for different experimental groups. Plots and other displays. It is particularly tailored to the analyses of data from germination and emergence assays. The methods are described in Onofri et al. (2022) "A unified framework for the analysis of germination, emergence, and other time-to-event data in weed science", Weed Science, 70, 259-271 <doi:10.1017/wsc.2022.8>.

This package provides a facility to generate efficient designs for order-of-additions experiments under pair-wise-order model, see Dennis K. J. Lin and Jiayu Peng (2019)."Order-of-addition experiments: A review and some new thoughts". Quality Engineering, 31:1, 49-59, <doi:10.1080/08982112.2018.1548021>. It also provides a facility to generate component orthogonal arrays under component position model, see Jian-Feng Yang, Fasheng Sun & Hongquan Xu (2020): "A Component Position Model, Analysis and Design for Order-of-Addition Experiments". Technometrics, <doi:10.1080/00401706.2020.1764394>.