Use the Official Hacker News API through R. Retrieve posts, articles and other items in form of convenient R objects.

In the framework of Symbolic Data Analysis, a relatively new approach to the statistical analysis of multi-valued data, we consider histogram-valued data, i.e., data described by univariate histograms. The methods and the basic statistics for histogram-valued data are mainly based on the L2 Wasserstein metric between distributions, i.e., the Euclidean metric between quantile functions. The package contains unsupervised classification techniques, least square regression and tools for histogram-valued data and for histogram time series. An introducing paper is Irpino A. Verde R. (2015) <doi: 10.1007/s11634-014-0176-4>.

The model is high-dimensional vector autoregression with measurement error, also known as linear gaussian state-space model. Provable sparse expectation-maximization algorithm is provided for the estimation of transition matrix and noise variances. Global and simultaneous testings are implemented for transition matrix with false discovery rate control. For more information, see the accompanying paper: Lyu, X., Kang, J., & Li, L. (2023). "Statistical inference for high-dimensional vector autoregression with measurement error", Statistica Sinica.

Pfafstetter Hydrological Codes as cited in Verdin and Verdin (1999) <doi: 10.1016/S0022-1694(99)00011-6> are decoded for upstream or downstream queries.

This package provides tools for estimating sample sizes primarily based on heritability, while also considering additional parameters such as statistical power and fold change. The package normalizes heritability values according to trait-specific heritability and classification to enhance accuracy in sample size estimation.

This package provides functions for calculating the hazard discrimination summary and its standard errors, as described in Liang and Heagerty (2016) <doi:10.1111/biom.12628>.

Efficient implementation of penalized regression with hierarchical nested parametrization for grouped data. The package provides penalized regression methods that decompose subgroup specific effects into shared global effects, Major subgroup specific effects, and Minor subgroup specific effects, enabling structured borrowing of information across related clinical subgroups. Both lasso and hierarchical overlapping group lasso penalties are supported to encourage sparsity while respecting the nested subgroup structure. Efficient computation is achieved through a modified design matrix representation and a custom algorithm for overlapping group penalties.

Translation between experimental null hypotheses, hypothesis matrices, and contrast matrices as used in linear regression models. The package is based on the method described in Schad et al. (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.jml.2019.104038> and Rabe et al. (2020) <doi:10.21105/joss.02134>.

Can be used for paternity and maternity assignment and outperforms conventional methods where closely related individuals occur in the pool of possible parents. The method compares the genotypes of offspring with any combination of potentials parents and scores the number of mismatches of these individuals at bi-allelic genetic markers (e.g. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms). It elaborates on a prior exclusion method based on the Homozygous Opposite Test (HOT; Huisman 2017 <doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12665>) by introducing the additional exclusion criterion HIPHOP (Homozygous Identical Parents, Heterozygous Offspring are Precluded; Cockburn et al., in revision). Potential parents are excluded if they have more mismatches than can be expected due to genotyping error and mutation, and thereby one can identify the true genetic parents and detect situations where one (or both) of the true parents is not sampled. Package hiphop can deal with (a) the case where there is contextual information about parentage of the mother (i.e. a female has been seen to be involved in reproductive tasks such as nest building), but paternity is unknown (e.g. due to promiscuity), (b) where both parents need to be assigned, because there is no contextual information on which female laid eggs and which male fertilized them (e.g. polygynandrous mating system where multiple females and males deposit young in a common nest, or organisms with external fertilisation that breed in aggregations). For details: Cockburn, A., Penalba, J.V.,Jaccoud, D.,Kilian, A., Brouwer, L., Double, M.C., Margraf, N., Osmond, H.L., van de Pol, M. and Kruuk, L.E.B. (in revision). HIPHOP: improved paternity assignment among close relatives using a simple exclusion method for bi-allelic markers. Molecular Ecology Resources, DOI to be added upon acceptance.

This package provides a user-friendly tool to fit Bayesian regression models. It can fit 3 types of Bayesian models using individual-level, summary-level, and individual plus pedigree-level (single-step) data for both Genomic prediction/selection (GS) and Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS), it was designed to estimate joint effects and genetic parameters for a complex trait, including: (1) fixed effects and coefficients of covariates, (2) environmental random effects, and its corresponding variance, (3) genetic variance, (4) residual variance, (5) heritability, (6) genomic estimated breeding values (GEBV) for both genotyped and non-genotyped individuals, (7) SNP effect size, (8) phenotype/genetic variance explained (PVE) for single or multiple SNPs, (9) posterior probability of association of the genomic window (WPPA), (10) posterior inclusive probability (PIP). The functions are not limited, we will keep on going in enriching it with more features. References: Lilin Yin et al. (2025) <doi:10.18637/jss.v114.i06>; Meuwissen et al. (2001) <doi:10.1093/genetics/157.4.1819>; Gustavo et al. (2013) <doi:10.1534/genetics.112.143313>; Habier et al. (2011) <doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-186>; Yi et al. (2008) <doi:10.1534/genetics.107.085589>; Zhou et al. (2013) <doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003264>; Moser et al. (2015) <doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004969>; Lloyd-Jones et al. (2019) <doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12653-0>; Henderson (1976) <doi:10.2307/2529339>; Fernando et al. (2014) <doi:10.1186/1297-9686-46-50>.

Display hexagonally binned scatterplots for multi-class data, using coloured triangles to show class proportions.

Generates high-entropy integer synthetic populations from marginal and (optionally) seed data using quasirandom sampling, in arbitrary dimensionality (Smith, Lovelace and Birkin (2017) <doi:10.18564/jasss.3550>). The package also provides an implementation of the Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) algorithm (Zaloznik (2011) <doi:10.13140/2.1.2480.9923>).

Method and tool for generating hybrid time series forecasts using an error remodeling approach. These forecasting approaches utilize a recursive technique for modeling the linearity of the series using a linear method (e.g., ARIMA, Theta, etc.) and then models (forecasts) the residuals of the linear forecaster using non-linear neural networks (e.g., ANN, ARNN, etc.). The hybrid architectures comprise three steps: firstly, the linear patterns of the series are forecasted which are followed by an error re-modeling step, and finally, the forecasts from both the steps are combined to produce the final output. This method additionally provides the confidence intervals as needed. Ten different models can be implemented using this package. This package generates different types of hybrid error correction models for time series forecasting based on the algorithms by Zhang. (2003), Chakraborty et al. (2019), Chakraborty et al. (2020), Bhattacharyya et al. (2021), Chakraborty et al. (2022), and Bhattacharyya et al. (2022) <doi:10.1016/S0925-2312(01)00702-0> <doi:10.1016/j.physa.2019.121266> <doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2020.109850> <doi:10.1109/IJCNN52387.2021.9533747> <doi:10.1007/978-3-030-72834-2_29> <doi:10.1007/s11071-021-07099-3>.

This package provides S4 classes and methods for reading and manipulating aligned DNA sequences, supporting an indel-coding method (only simple indel-coding method is available in the current version), showing base substitutions and indels, calculating absolute pairwise distances between DNA sequences, and collapsing identical DNA sequences into haplotypes or inferring haplotypes using user-provided absolute pairwise character difference matrix. This package also includes S4 classes and methods for estimating genealogical relationships among haplotypes using statistical parsimony and plotting parsimony networks.

This package contains various functions for data analysis, notably helpers and diagnostics for Bayesian modelling using Stan.

This package provides a fast, vectorized hashmap that is built on top of C++ std::unordered_map <https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/unordered_map.html>. The map can hold any R object as key / value as long as it is serializable and supports vectorized insertion, lookup, and deletion.

This package provides a correlation-based batch process for fast, accurate imputation for high dimensional missing data problems via chained random forests. See Waggoner (2023) <doi:10.1007/s00180-023-01325-9> for more on hdImpute', Stekhoven and Bühlmann (2012) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr597> for more on missForest', and Mayer (2022) <https://github.com/mayer79/missRanger> for more on missRanger'.

Estimates survey indicators using complex survey designs. Supports mean, proportion, and ratio estimation with multi-stage stratified sampling, weights, and finite population correction. The output is designed to be comparable to results from SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) Complex Samples procedures.

Inference of chromosome-length haplotypes using a few haploid gametes of an individual. The gamete genotype data may be generated from various platforms including genotyping arrays and sequencing even with low-coverage. Hapi simply takes genotype data of known hetSNPs in single gamete cells as input and report the high-resolution haplotypes as well as confidence of each phased hetSNPs. The package also includes a module allowing downstream analyses and visualization of identified crossovers in the gametes.

Automatic construction of regular and irregular histograms as described in Rozenholc/Mildenberger/Gather (2010).

It provides three implementations of hash tables and hash maps: 1. using std::unordered_map and std::unordered_set C++ libraries, 2. wrapping around the fastmatch package, 3. using R environment.

By binding R functions and the Highmaps <https://www.highcharts.com.cn/products/highmaps> chart library, hchinamap package provides a simple way to map China and its provinces. The map of China drawn by this package contains complete Chinese territory, especially the Nine-dotted line, South Tibet, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Estimation of high-dimensional multi-response regression with heterogeneous noises under Heterogeneous group square-root Lasso penalty. For details see: Ren, Z., Kang, Y., Fan, Y. and Lv, J. (2018)<arXiv:1606.03803>.

This package provides a function to assess and test for heterogeneity in the utility of a surrogate marker with respect to a baseline covariate. The main function can be used for either a continuous or discrete baseline covariate. More details will be available in the future in: Parast, L., Cai, T., Tian L (2021). "Testing for Heterogeneity in the Utility of a Surrogate Marker." Biometrics, In press.