This package provides Bayesian estimation and forecasting of dynamic panel data using Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions with hierarchical prior distributions following the specification by Sanchez-Martinez & Woźniak (2026) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2606.14143>. The models include country-specific Vector Autoregressions (VARs) that share a global prior distribution that extend the model by JarociÅ ski (2010) <doi:10.1002/jae.1082>. Under this prior expected value, each country's system follows a global VAR with country-invariant parameters. Further flexibility is provided by the hierarchical prior structure that retains the Minnesota prior interpretation for the global VAR and features estimated prior covariance matrices, shrinkage, and persistence levels. Bayesian forecasting is developed for models including exogenous variables, allowing conditional forecasts given the future trajectories of some variables and restricted forecasts assuring that rates are forecasted to stay positive and less than 100. The package implements the model specification, estimation, and forecasting routines, facilitating coherent workflows and reproducibility. It also includes automated pseudo-out-of-sample forecasting and computation of forecasting performance measures. Beautiful plots, informative summary functions, and extensive documentation complement all this. Extraordinary computational speed is achieved thanks to employing frontier econometric and numerical techniques and algorithms written in C++'. The bpvars package is aligned regarding objects, workflows, and code structure with the R packages bsvars by Woźniak (2024) <doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.bsvars>, bsvarSIGNs by Wang & Woźniak (2025) <doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.bsvarSIGNs>, and bvars by Liu, Ramirez Hassan, & Woźniak (2026) <doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.bvars> and they constitute an integrated toolset. Copyright: 2025 International Labour Organization. The International Labour Organization should not be held responsible for any issues arising from the use of the bpvars package or from the results obtained with it.

Persist, restore and manage blockr boards from within a running app. Provides a manage_project plugin for blockr.core that replaces the built-in file upload and download interface with storage backed by the pins package. On Posit Connect each visitor reads and writes pins under their own account, with board sharing, visibility controls and version history.

Various algorithms for segmentation of 2D and 3D images, such as computed tomography and satellite remote sensing. This package implements Bayesian image analysis using the hidden Potts model with external field prior of Moores et al. (2015) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2014.12.001>. Latent labels are sampled using chequerboard updating or Swendsen-Wang. Algorithms for the smoothing parameter include pseudolikelihood, path sampling, the exchange algorithm, approximate Bayesian computation (ABC-MCMC and ABC-SMC), and the parametric functional approximate Bayesian (PFAB) algorithm. Refer to Moores, Pettitt & Mengersen (2020) <doi:10.1007/978-3-030-42553-1_6> for an overview and also to <doi:10.1007/s11222-014-9525-6> and <doi:10.1214/18-BA1130> for further details of specific algorithms.

Implementation of Graph Signal Processing (GSP) methods including Spectral Graph Wavelet Transform (SGWT) for analyzing spatial patterns in biological data. Based on Hammond, Vandergheynst, and Gribonval (2011) <doi:10.1016/j.acha.2010.04.005>. Provides tools for multi-scale analysis of biology spatial signals, including forward and inverse transforms, energy analysis, and visualization functions tailored for biological applications. Biological application example is on Stephanie, Yao, Yuzhou (2024) <doi:10.1101/2024.12.20.629650>.

This package implements Roy's bivariate geometric model (Roy (1993) <doi:10.1006/jmva.1993.1065>): joint probability mass function, distribution function, survival function, random generation, parameter estimation, and more.

Complex machine learning models are often difficult to interpret. Shapley values serve as a powerful tool to understand and explain why a model makes a particular prediction. This package computes variable contributions using permutation-based Shapley values for Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) and its extension with Post-Stratification (BARP). The permutation-based SHAP method proposed by Strumbel and Kononenko (2014) <doi:10.1007/s10115-013-0679-x> is grounded in data obtained via MCMC sampling. Similar to the BART model introduced by Chipman, George, and McCulloch (2010) <doi:10.1214/09-AOAS285>, this package leverages Bayesian posterior samples generated during model estimation, allowing variable contributions to be computed without requiring additional sampling. The BART model is designed to work with the following R packages: BART <doi:10.18637/jss.v097.i01>, bartMachine <doi:10.18637/jss.v070.i04>, and dbarts <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dbarts>. For XGBoost and baseline adjustments, the approach by Lundberg et al. (2020) <doi:10.1038/s42256-019-0138-9> is also considered. The BARP model proposed by Bisbee (2019) <doi:10.1017/S0003055419000480> was implemented with reference to <https://github.com/jbisbee1/BARP> and is designed to work with modified functions based on that implementation. BARP extends post-stratification by computing variable contributions within each stratum defined by stratifying variables. The resulting Shapley values are visualized through both global and local explanation methods.

Generate ground truth cases for object localization algorithms. Cycle through a list of images, select points around which to generate bounding boxes and assign classifiers. Output the coordinates, and images annotated with boxes and labels. For an example study that uses bounding boxes for image localization and classification see Ibrahim, Badr, Abdallah, and Eissa (2012) "Bounding Box Object Localization Based on Image Superpixelization" <doi:10.1016/j.procs.2012.09.119>.

Used for Bayesian mediation analysis based on Bayesian additive Regression Trees (BART). The analysis method is described in Yu and Li (2025) "Mediation Analysis with Bayesian Additive Regression Trees", submitted for publication.

Simulation, estimation and forecasting of first-order Beta-Skew-t-EGARCH models with leverage (one-component, two-component, skewed versions).

Posterior sampling and inference for Bayesian Poisson regression models. The model specification makes use of Gaussian (or conditionally Gaussian) prior distributions on the regression coefficients. Details on the algorithm are found in D'Angelo and Canale (2023) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2022.2123337>.

Bumblebee colonies grow during worker production, then decline after switching to production of reproductive individuals (drones and gynes). This package provides tools for modeling and visualizing this pattern by identifying a switchpoint with a growth rate before and a decline rate after the switchpoint. The mathematical models fit by bumbl are described in Crone and Williams (2016) <doi:10.1111/ele.12581>.

Building on the docking layout manager provided by dockViewR', this provides a flexible front-end to blockr.core'. It provides an extension mechanism which allows for providing means to manipulate a board object via panel-based user interface components.

This package provides functions to compute pair-wise dissimilarities (distance matrices) and multiple-site dissimilarities, separating the turnover and nestedness-resultant components of taxonomic (incidence and abundance based), functional and phylogenetic beta diversity.

Making probabilistic projections of total fertility rate for all countries of the world, using a Bayesian hierarchical model <doi:10.1007/s13524-011-0040-5> <doi:10.18637/jss.v106.i08>. Subnational probabilistic projections are also supported <doi:10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.60>.

An R interface for the remote file hosting service Box (<https://www.box.com/>). In addition to uploading and downloading files, this package includes functions which mirror base R operations for local files, (e.g. box_load(), box_save(), box_read(), box_setwd(), etc.), as well as git style functions for entire directories (e.g. box_fetch(), box_push()).

Estimates VAR and VARX models with Structured Penalties.

Bootstrap bias correction for the performance of the cross-validation procedure. The relevant paper is Tsamardinos I., Greasidou E. and Borboudakis G. (2018), <doi:10.1007/s10994-018-5714-4>.

This package provides likelihood-based and hierarchical estimation methods for thresholded (binomial-probit) data. Supports fixed-mean and random-mean models with maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), generalized linear mixed model (GLMM), and Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) implementations. For methodological background, see Albert and Chib (1993) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1993.10476321> and McCulloch (1994) <doi:10.2307/2297959>.

Perform mediation analysis in the presence of high-dimensional mediators based on the potential outcome framework. Bayesian Mediation Analysis (BAMA), developed by Song et al (2019) <doi:10.1111/biom.13189> and Song et al (2020) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2009.11409>, relies on two Bayesian sparse linear mixed models to simultaneously analyze a relatively large number of mediators for a continuous exposure and outcome assuming a small number of mediators are truly active. This sparsity assumption also allows the extension of univariate mediator analysis by casting the identification of active mediators as a variable selection problem and applying Bayesian methods with continuous shrinkage priors on the effects.

Calculation of physical (e.g. aerodynamic conductance, surface temperature), and physiological (e.g. canopy conductance, water-use efficiency) ecosystem properties from eddy covariance data and accompanying meteorological measurements. Calculations assume the land surface to behave like a big-leaf and return bulk ecosystem/canopy variables.

Bayesian analysis for exponential random graph models using advanced computational algorithms. More information can be found at: <https://acaimo.github.io/Bergm/>.

This package provides a Bayesian version of the analysis of variance based on a three-component Gaussian mixture for which a Gibbs sampler produces posterior draws. For details about the Bayesian ANOVA based on Gaussian mixtures, see Kelter (2019) <arXiv:1906.07524>.

Collection of functions, data sets and code examples for evaluations of field trials with the objective of equivalence assessment.

Under- and over-dispersed binary data are modeled using an extended Poisson process model (EPPM) appropriate for binary data. A feature of the model is that the under-dispersion relative to the binomial distribution only needs to be greater than zero, but the over-dispersion is restricted compared to other distributional models such as the beta and correlated binomials. Because of this, the examples focus on under-dispersed data and how, in combination with the beta or correlated distributions, flexible models can be fitted to data displaying both under- and over-dispersion. Using Generalized Linear Model (GLM) terminology, the functions utilize linear predictors for the probability of success and scale-factor with various link functions for p, and log link for scale-factor, to fit a variety of models relevant to areas such as bioassay. Details of the EPPM are in Faddy and Smith (2012) <doi:10.1002/bimj.201100214> and Smith and Faddy (2019) <doi:10.18637/jss.v090.i08>.