This package provides a number of functions to facilitate the handling and production of reports using time series data. The package was developed to be understandable for beginners, so some functions aim to transform processes that would be complex into functions with a few lines. The main advantage of using the metools package is the ease of producing reports and working with time series using a few lines of code, so the code is clean and easy to understand/maintain. Learn more about the metools at <https://metoolsr.wordpress.com>.

Model based clustering using the multivariate multiple Scaled t (MST) and multivariate multiple scaled contaminated normal (MSCN) distributions. The MST is an extension of the multivariate Student-t distribution to include flexible tail behaviors, Forbes, F. & Wraith, D. (2014) <doi:10.1007/s11222-013-9414-4>. The MSCN represents a heavy-tailed generalization of the multivariate normal (MN) distribution to model elliptical contoured scatters in the presence of mild outliers (also referred to as "bad" points) and automatically detect bad points, Punzo, A. & Tortora, C. (2021) <doi:10.1177/1471082X19890935>.

This package provides tools to generate HTML interfaces for adaptive and non-adaptive tests using the shiny package (Chalmers (2016) <doi:10.18637/jss.v071.i05>). Suitable for applying unidimensional and multidimensional computerized adaptive tests (CAT) using item response theory methodology and for creating simple questionnaires forms to collect response data directly in R. Additionally, optimal test designs (e.g., "shadow testing") are supported for tests that contain a large number of item selection constraints. Finally, package contains tools useful for performing Monte Carlo simulations for studying test item banks.

This package provides functions for downloading, calibrating, and analyzing atmospheric isotope data bundled into the eddy covariance data products of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) <https://www.neonscience.org>. Calibration tools are provided for carbon and water isotope products. Carbon isotope calibration details are found in Fiorella et al. (2021) <doi:10.1029/2020JG005862>, and the readme file at <https://github.com/lanl/NEONiso>. Tools for calibrating water isotope products have been added as of 0.6.0, but have known deficiencies and should be considered experimental and unsupported.

This package provides functions for landscape analysis and data retrieval. The package allows users to download environmental variables from global datasets (e.g., WorldClim, ESA WorldCover, Nighttime Lights), and to compute spatial and landscape metrics using a hexagonal grid system based on the H3 spatial index. It is useful for ecological modeling, biodiversity studies, and spatial data processing in landscape ecology. Fick and Hijmans (2017) <doi:10.1002/joc.5086>. Zanaga et al. (2022) <doi:10.5281/zenodo.7254221>. Uber Technologies Inc. (2022) "H3: Hexagonal hierarchical spatial index".

Calculates the periodogram of a time series, maximum-likelihood fits an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck state space (OUSS) null model and evaluates the statistical significance of periodogram peaks against the OUSS null hypothesis. The OUSS is a parsimonious model for stochastically fluctuating variables with linear stabilizing forces, subject to uncorrelated measurement errors. Contrary to the classical white noise null model for detecting cyclicity, the OUSS model can account for temporal correlations typically occurring in ecological and geological time series. Citation: Louca, Stilianos and Doebeli, Michael (2015) <doi:10.1890/14-0126.1>.

Inspired by space-time regressions often performed to assess the expansion of the Neolithic from the Near East to Europe (Pinhasi et al. 2005 <doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030410>). Test for significant correlations between the (earliest) radiocarbon dates of archaeological sites and their respective distances from a hypothetical center of origin. Both ordinary least squares (OLS) and reduced major axis (RMA) methods are supported (Russell et al. 2014 <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087854>). It is also possible to iterate over many sites to identify the most likely origin.

biomaRt provides an interface to a growing collection of databases implementing the http://www.biomart.org. The package enables retrieval of large amounts of data in a uniform way without the need to know the underlying database schemas or write complex SQL queries. Examples of BioMart databases are Ensembl, COSMIC, Uniprot, HGNC, Gramene, Wormbase and dbSNP mapped to Ensembl. These major databases give biomaRt users direct access to a diverse set of data and enable a wide range of powerful online queries from gene annotation to database mining.

This package provides a pipeline toolkit for statistics and data science in R; the targets package brings function-oriented programming to Make-like declarative pipelines. It orchestrates a pipeline as a graph of dependencies, skips steps that are already up to date, runs the necessary computation with optional parallel workers, abstracts files as R objects, and provides tangible evidence that the results are reproducible given the underlying code and data. The methodology in this package borrows from GNU Make (2015, ISBN:978-9881443519) and drake (2018, <doi:10.21105/joss.00550>).

Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen which has done wonders in the virtual terminal market.

The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your precious screen real estate.

All interaction with the window manager is done through keystrokes. Ratpoison has a prefix map to minimize the key clobbering that cripples Emacs and other quality pieces of software.

Digital Expression Explorer 2 (or DEE2 for short) is a repository of processed RNA-seq data in the form of counts. It was designed so that researchers could undertake re-analysis and meta-analysis of published RNA-seq studies quickly and easily. As of April 2020, over 1 million SRA datasets have been processed. This package provides an R interface to access these expression data. More information about the DEE2 project can be found at the project homepage (http://dee2.io) and main publication (https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giz022).

PathMED is a collection of tools to facilitate precision medicine studies with omics data (e.g. transcriptomics). Among its funcionalities, genesets scores for individual samples may be calculated with several methods. These scores may be used to train machine learning models and to predict clinical features on new data. For this, several machine learning methods are evaluated in order to select the best method based on internal validation and to tune the hyperparameters. Performance metrics and a ready-to-use model to predict the outcomes for new patients are returned.

zitools allows for zero inflated count data analysis by either using down-weighting of excess zeros or by replacing an appropriate proportion of excess zeros with NA. Through overloading frequently used statistical functions (such as mean, median, standard deviation), plotting functions (such as boxplots or heatmap) or differential abundance tests, it allows a wide range of downstream analyses for zero-inflated data in a less biased manner. This becomes applicable in the context of microbiome analyses, where the data is often overdispersed and zero-inflated, therefore making data analysis extremly challenging.

Many relevant applications in the environmental and socioeconomic sciences use areal data, such as biodiversity checklists, agricultural statistics, or socioeconomic surveys. For applications that surpass the spatial, temporal or thematic scope of any single data source, data must be integrated from several heterogeneous sources. Inconsistent concepts, definitions, or messy data tables make this a tedious and error-prone process. arealDB tackles those problems and helps the user to integrate a harmonised databases of areal data. Read the paper at Ehrmann, Seppelt & Meyer (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104799>.

This package provides functions to simulate data sets from hierarchical ecological models, including all the simulations described in the two volume publication Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Analysis of distribution, abundance and species richness in R and BUGS by Marc Kéry and Andy Royle: volume 1 (2016, ISBN: 978-0-12-801378-6) and volume 2 (2021, ISBN: 978-0-12-809585-0), <https://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/pubanalysis/keryroylebook/>. It also has all the utility functions and data sets needed to replicate the analyses shown in the books.

Bayesian kernel machine regression (from the bkmr package) is a Bayesian semi-parametric generalized linear model approach under identity and probit links. There are a number of functions in this package that extend Bayesian kernel machine regression fits to allow multiple-chain inference and diagnostics, which leverage functions from the future', rstan', and coda packages. Reference: Bobb, J. F., Henn, B. C., Valeri, L., & Coull, B. A. (2018). Statistical software for analyzing the health effects of multiple concurrent exposures via Bayesian kernel machine regression. ; <doi:10.1186/s12940-018-0413-y>.

Clusters longitudinal trajectories over time (can be unequally spaced, unequal length time series and/or partially overlapping series) on a common time axis. Performs k-means clustering on a single continuous variable measured over time, where each mean is defined by a thin plate spline fit to all points in a cluster. Distance is MSE across trajectory points to cluster spline. Provides graphs of derived cluster splines, silhouette plots, and Adjusted Rand Index evaluations of the number of clusters. Scales well to large data with multicore parallelism available to speed computation.

This package implements a modern, unified estimation strategy for common mediation estimands (natural effects, organic effects, interventional effects, and recanting twins) in combination with modified treatment policies as described in Liu, Williams, Rudolph, and DÃ az (2024) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2408.14620>. Estimation makes use of recent advancements in Riesz-learning to estimate a set of required nuisance parameters with deep learning. The result is the capability to estimate mediation effects with binary, categorical, continuous, or multivariate exposures with high-dimensional mediators and mediator-outcome confounders using machine learning.

Estimation of distributed lag models (DLMs) based on a Bayesian additive regression trees framework. Includes several extensions of DLMs: treed DLMs and distributed lag mixture models (Mork and Wilson, 2023) <doi:10.1111/biom.13568>; treed distributed lag nonlinear models (Mork and Wilson, 2022) <doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxaa051>; heterogeneous DLMs (Mork, et. al., 2024) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2023.2258595>; monotone DLMs (Mork and Wilson, 2024) <doi:10.1214/23-BA1412>. The package also includes visualization tools and a shiny interface to check model convergence and to help interpret results.

Allows the user to execute interactively radial data envelopment analysis models. The user has the ability to upload a data frame, select the input/output variables, choose the technology assumption to adopt and decide whether to run an input or an output oriented model. When the model is executed a set of results are displayed which include efficiency scores, peers determination, scale efficiencies evaluation and slacks calculation. Fore more information about the theoretical background of the package, please refer to Bogetoft & Otto (2011) <doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-7961-2>.

This package performs fragment analysis using genetic data coming from capillary electrophoresis machines. These are files with FSA extension which stands for FASTA-type file, and .txt files from Beckman CEQ 8000 system, both contain DNA fragment intensities read by machinery. In addition to visualization, it performs automatic scoring of SSRs (Sample Sequence Repeats; a type of genetic marker very common across the genome) and other type of PCR markers (standing for Polymerase Chain Reaction) in biparental populations such as F1, F2, BC (backcross), and diversity panels (collection of genetic diversity).

Audits ggplot2 visualizations for accessibility issues, misleading practices, and readability problems. Checks for color accessibility concerns including colorblind-unfriendly palettes, misleading scale manipulations such as truncated axes and dual y-axes, text readability issues like small fonts and overlapping labels, and general accessibility barriers. Provides comprehensive audit reports with actionable suggestions for improvement. Color vision deficiency simulation uses methods from the colorspace package Zeileis et al. (2020) <doi:10.18637/jss.v096.i01>. Contrast calculations follow WCAG 2.1 guidelines (W3C 2018 <https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/contrast-minimum>).

This package provides functions to assess the calibration of logistic regression models with the GiViTI (Gruppo Italiano per la Valutazione degli interventi in Terapia Intensiva, Italian Group for the Evaluation of the Interventions in Intensive Care Units - see <http://www.giviti.marionegri.it/>) approach. The approach consists in a graphical tool, namely the GiViTI calibration belt, and in the associated statistical test. These tools can be used both to evaluate the internal calibration (i.e. the goodness of fit) and to assess the validity of an externally developed model.

We implemented multiple tests based on the restricted mean time lost (RMTL) for general factorial designs as described in Munko et al. (2024) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2409.07917>. Therefore, an asymptotic test and a permutation test are incorporated with a Wald-type test statistic. The asymptotic test takes the asymptotic exact dependence structure of the test statistics into account to gain more power. Furthermore, confidence intervals for RMTL contrasts can be calculated and plotted and a stepwise extension that can improve the power of the multiple tests is available.