R is great for installing software. Through the installr package you can automate the updating of R (on Windows, using updateR()) and install new software. Software installation is initiated through a GUI (just run installr()), or through functions such as: install.Rtools(), install.pandoc(), install.git(), and many more. The updateR() command performs the following: finding the latest R version, downloading it, running the installer, deleting the installation file, copy and updating old packages to the new R installation.

As a sequel to iNEXT', the iNEXT.beta3D package provides functions to compute standardized taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity (3D) estimates with a common sample size (for alpha and gamma diversity) or sample coverage (for alpha, beta, gamma diversity as well as dissimilarity or turnover indices). Hill numbers and their generalizations are used to quantify 3D and to make multiplicative decomposition (gamma = alpha x beta). The package also features size- and coverage-based rarefaction and extrapolation sampling curves to facilitate rigorous comparison of beta diversity across datasets. See Chao et al. (2023) <doi:10.1002/ecm.1588> for more details.

This package provides a comprehensive analytics framework for building reproducible pipelines on T-cell and B-cell immune receptor repertoire data. Delivers multi-modal immune profiling (bulk, single-cell, CITE-seq/AbSeq, spatial, immunogenicity data), feature engineering (ML-ready feature tables and matrices), and biomarker discovery workflows (cohort comparisons, longitudinal tracking, repertoire similarity, enrichment). Provides a user-friendly interface to widely used AIRR methods â clonality/diversity, V(D)J usage, similarity, annotation, tracking, and many more. Think Scanpy or Seurat, but for AIRR data, a.k.a. Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire, VDJ-seq, RepSeq, or VDJ sequencing data. A successor to our previously published "tcR" R package (Nazarov 2015).

This package provides a integrated variance correlation is proposed to measure the dependence between a categorical or continuous random variable and a continuous random variable or vector. This package is designed to estimate the new correlation coefficient with parametric and nonparametric approaches. Test of independence for different problems can also be implemented via the new correlation coefficient with this package.

Implementation of Isolation kernel (Qin et al. (2019) <doi:10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33014755>).

Perform common calculations based on published stable isotope theory, such as calculating carbon isotope discrimination and intrinsic water use efficiency from wood or leaf carbon isotope composition. See Mathias and Hudiburg (2022) in Global Change Biology <doi:10.1111/gcb.16407>.

Independent vector analysis (IVA) is a blind source separation (BSS) model where several datasets are jointly unmixed. This package provides several methods for the unmixing together with some performance measures. For details, see Anderson et al. (2011) <doi:10.1109/TSP.2011.2181836> and Lee et al. (2007) <doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.01.010>.

Converts character vectors between phonetic representations. Supports IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), X-SAMPA (Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet), and ARPABET (used by the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

This package provides an estimator for generalized linear models with incomplete data for discrete covariates. The estimation is based on the EM algorithm by the method of weights by Ibrahim (1990) <DOI:10.2307/2290013>.

The iterLap (iterated Laplace approximation) algorithm approximates a general (possibly non-normalized) probability density on R^p, by repeated Laplace approximations to the difference between current approximation and true density (on log scale). The final approximation is a mixture of multivariate normal distributions and might be used for example as a proposal distribution for importance sampling (eg in Bayesian applications). The algorithm can be seen as a computational generalization of the Laplace approximation suitable for skew or multimodal densities.

This package provides a suite of functions for conducting and interpreting analysis of statistical interaction in regression models that was formerly part of the jtools package. Functionality includes visualization of two- and three-way interactions among continuous and/or categorical variables as well as calculation of "simple slopes" and Johnson-Neyman intervals (see e.g., Bauer & Curran, 2005 <doi:10.1207/s15327906mbr4003_5>). These capabilities are implemented for generalized linear models in addition to the standard linear regression context.

Fit parametric models for time-to-event data that show an initial incubation period', i.e., a variable delay phase where the hazard is zero. The delayed Weibull distribution serves as foundational data model. The specific method of MPSE (maximum product of spacings estimation) and MLE-based methods are used for parameter estimation. Bootstrap confidence intervals for parameters and significance tests in a two group setting are provided.

Biodiversity is a multifaceted concept covering different levels of organization from genes to ecosystems. iNEXT.3D extends iNEXT to include three dimensions (3D) of biodiversity, i.e., taxonomic diversity (TD), phylogenetic diversity (PD) and functional diversity (FD). This package provides functions to compute standardized 3D diversity estimates with a common sample size or sample coverage. A unified framework based on Hill numbers and their generalizations (Hill-Chao numbers) are used to quantify 3D. All 3D estimates are in the same units of species/lineage equivalents and can be meaningfully compared. The package features size- and coverage-based rarefaction and extrapolation sampling curves to facilitate rigorous comparison of 3D diversity across individual assemblages. Asymptotic 3D diversity estimates are also provided. See Chao et al. (2021) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13682> for more details.

Simulate general insurance policies, losses and loss emergence. The functions contemplate deterministic and stochastic policy retention and growth scenarios. Retention and growth rates are percentages relative to the expiring portfolio. Claims are simulated for each policy. This is accomplished either be assuming a frequency distribution per development lag or by generating random wait times until claim emergence and settlement. Loss simulation uses standard loss distributions for claim amounts.

This package implements the conditional inference forest approach to modeling interval-censored survival data. It also provides functions to tune the parameters and evaluate the model fit. See Yao et al. (2019) <arXiv:1901.04599>.

Instrumental variable (IV) estimators for homogeneous and heterogeneous treatment effects with efficient machine learning instruments. The estimators are based on double/debiased machine learning allowing for nonlinear and potentially high-dimensional control variables. Details can be found in Scheidegger, Guo and Bühlmann (2025) "Inference for heterogeneous treatment effects with efficient instruments and machine learning" <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2503.03530>.

Facilitates fitting measurement error and missing data imputation models using integrated nested Laplace approximations, according to the method described in Skarstein, Martino and Muff (2023) <doi:10.1002/bimj.202300078>. See Skarstein and Muff (2024) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2406.08172> for details on using the package.

This package produces a publication-ready table that includes all effect estimates necessary for full reporting effect modification and interaction analysis as recommended by Knol and Vanderweele (2012) [<doi:10.1093/ije/dyr218>]. It also estimates confidence interval for the trio of additive interaction measures using the delta method (see Hosmer and Lemeshow (1992), [<doi:10.1097/00001648-199209000-00012>]), variance recovery method (see Zou (2008), [<doi:10.1093/aje/kwn104>]), or percentile bootstrapping (see Assmann et al. (1996), [<doi:10.1097/00001648-199605000-00012>]).

Iterator for generating permutations and combinations. They can be either drawn with or without replacement, or with distinct/ non-distinct items (multiset). The generated sequences are in lexicographical order (dictionary order). The algorithms to generate permutations and combinations are memory efficient. These iterative algorithms enable users to process all sequences without putting all results in the memory at the same time. The algorithms are written in C/C++ for faster performance. Note: iterpc is no longer being maintained. Users are recommended to switch to arrangements'.

Utilities to work with data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) (<https://www.internal-displacement.org/>), with convenient functions for loading events data from the IDMC API and transforming events data to daily displacement estimates.

Sports Injury Data analysis aims to identify and describe the magnitude of the injury problem, and to gain more insights (e.g. determine potential risk factors) by statistical modelling approaches. The injurytools package provides standardized routines and utilities that simplify such analyses. It offers functions for data preparation, informative visualizations and descriptive and model-based analyses.

Interactive dendrogram that enables the user to select and color clusters, to zoom and pan the dendrogram, and to visualize the clustered data not only in a built-in heat map, but also in GGobi interactive plots and user-supplied plots. This is a backport of Qt-based idendro (<https://github.com/tsieger/idendro>) to base R graphics and Tcl/Tk GUI.

Decomposition of income inequality by groups formed of individuals possessing similar characteristics (e.g., sex, education, age) and their income sources at the same time. Decomposition of the Theil index is based on Giammatteo, M. (2007) <https://www.lisdatacenter.org/wps/liswps/466.pdf>. Decomposition of the squared coefficient of variation is based on Garcia-Penalosa, C., & Orgiazzi, E. (2013) <doi:10.1111/roiw.12054>.

Functionality required to efficiently use R with IBM(R) Db2(R) Warehouse offerings (formerly IBM dashDB(R)) and IBM Db2 for z/OS(R) in conjunction with IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS. Many basic and complex R operations are pushed down into the database, which removes the main memory boundary of R and allows to make full use of parallel processing in the underlying database. For executing R-functions in a multi-node environment in parallel the idaTApply() function requires the SparkR package (<https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sparkr.html>). The optional ggplot2 package is needed for the plot.idaLm() function only.