While gene signatures are frequently used to predict phenotypes (e.g. predict prognosis of cancer patients), it it not always clear how optimal or meaningful they are (cf David Venet, Jacques E. Dumont, and Vincent Detours paper "Most Random Gene Expression Signatures Are Significantly Associated with Breast Cancer Outcome"). Based on suggestions in that paper, SigCheck accepts a data set (as an ExpressionSet) and a gene signature, and compares its performance on survival and/or classification tasks against a) random gene signatures of the same length; b) known, related and unrelated gene signatures; and c) permuted data and/or metadata.

Implementation of the nonparametric bounds for the average causal effect under an instrumental variable model by Balke and Pearl (Bounds on Treatment Effects from Studies with Imperfect Compliance, JASA, 1997, 92, 439, 1171-1176, <doi:10.2307/2965583>). The package can calculate bounds for a binary outcome, a binary treatment/phenotype, and an instrument with either 2 or 3 categories. The package implements bounds for situations where these 3 variables are measured in the same dataset (trivariate data) or where the outcome and instrument are measured in one study and the treatment/phenotype and instrument are measured in another study (bivariate data).

Calculates the carbon footprint of dairy farms based on methodologies of the International Dairy Federation and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Includes tools for single-farm and batch analysis, report generation, and visualization. Methods follow International Dairy Federation (2022) "The IDF global Carbon Footprint standard for the dairy sector" (Bulletin of the IDF n° 520/2022) <doi:10.56169/FKRK7166> and IPCC (2019) "2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Chapter 10: Emissions from Livestock and Manure Management" <https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2019rf/pdf/4_Volume4/19R_V4_Ch10_Livestock.pdf> guidelines.

Easily perform a Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate the cost and carbon, ecological, and water footprints of a set of ideal diets. Pre-processing tools are also available to quickly treat the data, along with basic statistical features to analyze the simulation results â including the ability to establish confidence intervals for selected parameters, such as nutrients and price/emissions. A standard version of the datasets employed is included as well, allowing users easy access to customization. This package brings to R the Python software initially developed by Vandevijvere, Young, Mackay, Swinburn and Gahegan (2018) <doi:10.1186/s12966-018-0648-6>.

This package provides a Bayesian framework for parameter inference in differential equations. This approach offers a rigorous methodology for parameter inference as well as modeling the link between unobservable model states and parameters, and observable quantities. Provides templates for the DE model, the observation model and data likelihood, and the model parameters and their prior distributions. A Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) procedure processes these inputs to estimate the posterior distributions of the parameters and any derived quantities, including the model trajectories. Further functionality is provided to facilitate MCMC diagnostics and the visualisation of the posterior distributions of model parameters and trajectories.

Tailored explicitly for Experience Sampling Method (ESM) data, it contains a suite of functions designed to simplify preprocessing steps and create subsequent reporting. It empowers users with capabilities to extract critical insights during preprocessing, conducts thorough data quality assessments (e.g., design and sampling scheme checks, compliance rate, careless responses), and generates visualizations and concise summary tables tailored specifically for ESM data. Additionally, it streamlines the creation of informative and interactive preprocessing reports, enabling researchers to transparently share their dataset preprocessing methodologies. Finally, it is part of a larger ecosystem which includes a framework and a web gallery (<https://preprocess.esmtools.com/>).

Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) data by Guescini et al. (2008) <doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-326> in tidy format. This package provides two data sets where the amplification efficiency has been modulated: either by changing the amplification mix concentration, or by increasing the concentration of IgG, a PCR inhibitor. Original raw data files: <https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1186%2F1471-2105-9-326/MediaObjects/12859_2008_2311_MOESM1_ESM.xls> and <https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1186%2F1471-2105-9-326/MediaObjects/12859_2008_2311_MOESM5_ESM.xls>.

The sample mean and standard deviation are two commonly used statistics in meta-analyses, but some trials use other summary statistics such as the median and quartiles to report the results. Therefore, researchers need to transform those information back to the sample mean and standard deviation. This package implemented sample mean estimators by Luo et al. (2016) <arXiv:1505.05687>, sample standard deviation estimators by Wan et al. (2014) <arXiv:1407.8038>, and the best linear unbiased estimators (BLUEs) of location and scale parameters by Yang et al. (2018, submitted) based on sample quantiles derived summaries in a meta-analysis.

Nonparametric methods for analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) are distribution-free and provide a flexible statistical framework for situations where the assumptions of parametric ANCOVA are violated or when the response variable is ordinal. This package implements several well-known nonparametric ANCOVA procedures, including Quade, Puri and Sen, McSweeney and Porter, Burnett and Barr, Hettmansperger and McKean, Shirley, and Puri-Sen-Harwell-Serlin. The package provides user-friendly functions to apply these methods in practice. These methods are described in Olejnik et al. (1985) <doi:10.1177/0193841X8500900104> and Harwell et al. (1988) <doi:10.1037/0033-2909.104.2.268>.

This package provides randomization using permutation for applications. To provide a Quality Control (QC) check, QC samples can be randomized within strata. A second function allows for the ability to â switchâ samples to meet set requirements and perform a certain amount of minimization on these switches. The functions are flexible for users by specifying strata size and number of QC samples per strata. The randomization meets the following requirements â ¢ QC sample requirements: QC samples not adjacent, QC samples from same mother must follow certain patterns. â ¢ Matched sample sets must be within a single strata, and next to each other.

The constructs used to study the human psychology have many definitions and corresponding instructions for eliciting and coding qualitative data pertaining to constructs content and for measuring the constructs. This plethora of definitions and instructions necessitates unequivocal reference to specific definitions and instructions in empirical and secondary research. This package implements a human- and machine-readable standard for specifying construct definitions and instructions for measurement and qualitative research based on YAML'. This standard facilitates systematic unequivocal reference to specific construct definitions and corresponding instructions in a decentralized manner (i.e. without requiring central curation; Peters (2020) <doi:10.31234/osf.io/xebhn>).

This package implements variational Bayesian algorithms to perform scalable variable selection for sparse, high-dimensional linear and logistic regression models. Features include a novel prioritized updating scheme, which uses a preliminary estimator of the variational means during initialization to generate an updating order prioritizing large, more relevant, coefficients. Sparsity is induced via spike-and-slab priors with either Laplace or Gaussian slabs. By default, the heavier-tailed Laplace density is used. Formal derivations of the algorithms and asymptotic consistency results may be found in Kolyan Ray and Botond Szabo (JASA 2020) and Kolyan Ray, Botond Szabo, and Gabriel Clara (NeurIPS 2020).

mixOmics offers a wide range of multivariate methods for the exploration and integration of biological datasets with a particular focus on variable selection. The package proposes several sparse multivariate models we have developed to identify the key variables that are highly correlated, and/or explain the biological outcome of interest. The data that can be analysed with mixOmics may come from high throughput sequencing technologies, such as omics data (transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics, metagenomics etc) but also beyond the realm of omics (e.g. spectral imaging). The methods implemented in mixOmics can also handle missing values without having to delete entire rows with missing data.

Normalizes a data matrix `data` by raking (using the RAS method by Bacharach, see references) the Nrows by Ncols matrix such that the row means and column means equal 1. The result is a normalized data matrix `K=RAS`, a product of row mulipliers `R` and column multipliers `S` with the original matrix `A`. Missing information needs to be presented as `NA` values and not as zero values, because CONSTANd is able to ignore missing values when calculating the mean. Using CONSTANd normalization allows for the direct comparison of values between samples within the same and even across different CONSTANd-normalized data matrices.

The caroline R library contains dozens of functions useful for: database migration (dbWriteTable2), database style joins & aggregation (nerge, groupBy, & bestBy), data structure conversion (nv, tab2df), legend table making (sstable & leghead), automatic legend positioning for scatter and box plots (), plot annotation (labsegs & mvlabs), data visualization (pies, sparge, confound.grid & raPlot), character string manipulation (m & pad), file I/O (write.delim), batch scripting, data exploration, and more. The package's greatest contributions lie in the database style merge, aggregation and interface functions as well as in it's extensive use and propagation of row, column and vector names in most functions.

This package provides diagnostic graphic tools for GLMs, beta-binomial regression model (estimated by VGAM package), beta regression model (estimated by betareg package) and negative binomial regression model (estimated by MASS package). Since most of functions implemented in glmxdiag already exist in other packages, the aim is to provide the user unique functions that work on almost all regression models previously specified. Details about some of the implemented functions can be found in Brown (1992) <doi:10.2307/2347617>, Dunn and Smyth (1996) <doi:10.2307/1390802>, O'Hara Hines and Carter (1993) <doi:10.2307/2347405>, Wang (1985) <doi:10.2307/1269708>.

With the deprecation of mocking capabilities shipped with testthat as of edition 3 it is left to third-party packages to replace this functionality, which in some test-scenarios is essential in order to run unit tests in limited environments (such as no Internet connection). Mocking in this setting means temporarily substituting a function with a stub that acts in some sense like the original function (for example by serving a HTTP response that has been cached as a file). The only exported function with_mock() is modeled after the eponymous testthat function with the intention of providing a drop-in replacement.

This package provides functions for making run charts [Anhoej, Olesen (2014) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0113825>] and basic Shewhart control charts [Mohammed, Worthington, Woodall (2008) <doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.012047>] for measure and count data. The main function, qic(), creates run and control charts and has a simple interface with a rich set of options to control data analysis and plotting, including options for automatic data aggregation by subgroups, easy analysis of before-and-after data, exclusion of one or more data points from analysis, and splitting charts into sequential time periods. Missing values and empty subgroups are handled gracefully.

Recently, regularized variable selection has emerged as a powerful tool to identify and dissect gene-environment interactions. Nevertheless, in longitudinal studies with high dimensional genetic factors, regularization methods for GÃ E interactions have not been systematically developed. In this package, we provide the implementation of sparse group variable selection, based on both the quadratic inference function (QIF) and generalized estimating equation (GEE), to accommodate the bi-level selection for longitudinal GÃ E studies with high dimensional genomic features. Alternative methods conducting only the group or individual level selection have also been included. The core modules of the package have been developed in C++.

Data from statistical agencies and other institutions are mostly confidential. This package, introduced in Templ, Kowarik and Meindl (2017) <doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i04>, can be used for the generation of anonymized (micro)data, i.e. for the creation of public- and scientific-use files. The theoretical basis for the methods implemented can be found in Templ (2017) <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50272-4>. Various risk estimation and anonymization methods are included. Note that the package includes a graphical user interface published in Meindl and Templ (2019) <doi:10.3390/a12090191> that allows to use various methods of this package.

This package provides utilities to create and use lenses to simplify data manipulation. Lenses are composable getter/setter pairs that provide a functional approach to manipulating deeply nested data structures, e.g., elements within list columns in data frames. The implementation is based on the earlier lenses R package <https://github.com/cfhammill/lenses>, which was inspired by the Haskell lens package by Kmett (2012) <https://github.com/ekmett/lens>, one of the most widely referenced implementations of lenses. For additional background and history on the theory of lenses, see the lens package wiki: <https://github.com/ekmett/lens/wiki/History-of-Lenses>.

Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.

Features include:

• MD5/SHA1 hashes checked at all times for file integrity

• Timestamps preserved on files

• Partial syncs supported on a whole file basis

• Copy mode to just copy new/changed files

• Sync (one way) mode to make a directory identical

• Check mode to check for file hash equality

• Can sync to and from network, e.g., two different cloud accounts

• Optional encryption (Crypt)

• Optional cache (Cache)

• Optional FUSE mount (rclone mount)

The DImodels package is suitable for analysing data from biodiversity and ecosystem function studies using the Diversity-Interactions (DI) modelling approach introduced by Kirwan et al. (2009) <doi:10.1890/08-1684.1>. Suitable data will contain proportions for each species and a community-level response variable, and may also include additional factors, such as blocks or treatments. The package can perform data manipulation tasks, such as computing pairwise interactions (the DI_data() function), can perform an automated model selection process (the autoDI() function) and has the flexibility to fit a wide range of user-defined DI models (the DI() function).

This tree-based method deals with high dimensional longitudinal data with correlated features through the use of a piecewise random effect model. FREE tree also exploits the network structure of the features, by first clustering them using Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis ('WGCNA'). It then conducts a screening step within each cluster of features and a selecting step among the surviving features, which provides a relatively unbiased way to do feature selection. By using dominant principle components as regression variables at each leaf and the original features as splitting variables at splitting nodes, FREE tree delivers easily interpretable results while improving computational efficiency.