Table of Contents
Editorial (p. 4)
Michael Lawrence
Contributed Research Articles
metaplus: An R Package for the Analysis of Robust Meta- Analysis and Meta-Regression (p. 5)
Ken J. Beath
Gender Prediction Methods Based on First Names with genderizeR (p. 17)
Kamil Wais
Conditional Fractional Gaussian Fields with the Package FieldSim (p. 38)
Alexandre Brouste, Jacques Istas, Sophie Lambert- Lacroix
rTableICC: An R Package for Random Generation of 22K and RC Contingency Tables (p. 48)
Haydar Demirhan
Maps, Coordinate Reference Systems and Visualising Geographic Data with mapmisc (p. 64)
Patrick E. Brown
Variable Clustering in High-Dimensional Linear Regression: The R Package clere (p. 92)
Loïc Yengo, Julien Jacques, Christophe Biernacki, Mickael Canouil
Stylometry with R: A Package for Computational Text Analysis (p. 107)
Maciej Eder, Jan Rybicki, Mike Kestemont
quickpsy: An R Package to Fit Psychometric Functions for Multiple Groups (p. 122)
Daniel Linares, Joan López-Moliner
FWDselect: An R Package for Variable Selection in Regression Models (p. 132)
Marta Sestelo, Nora M. Villanueva, Luis Meira-Machado, Javier Roca-Pardiñas
An Interactive Survey Application for Validating Social Network Analysis Techniques (p. 149)
Mitchell Joblin, Wolfgang Mauerer
Exploring Interaction Effects in Two-Factor Studies using the hiddenf Package in R. (p. 159)
Christopher T. Franck, Jason A. Osborne
Heteroscedastic Censored and Truncated Regression with crch (p. 173)
Jakob W. Messner, Georg J. Mayr, Achim Zeileis
Model Builder for Item Factor Analysis with OpenMx (p. 182)
Joshua N. Pritikin, Karen M. Schmidt
Spatio-Temporal Interpolation using gstat (p. 204)
Benedikt Gräler, Edzer Pebesma, Gerard Heuvelink
SWMPr: An R Package for Retrieving, Organizing, and Analyzing Environmental Data for Estuaries (p. 219)
Marcus W Beck
CryptRndTest: An R Package for Testing the Cryptographic Randomness (p. 233)
Haydar Demirhan, Nihan Bitirim
scmamp: Statistical Comparison of Multiple Algorithms in Multiple Problems (p. 248)
Borja Calvo, Guzmán Santafé
keyplayer: An R Package for Locating Key Players in Social Networks (p. 257)
Weihua An, Yu-Hsin Liu
SchemaOnRead: A Package for Schema-on-Read in R (p. 269)
Michael J. North
Crowdsourced Data Preprocessing with R and Amazon Mechanical Turk (p. 276)
Thomas J. Leeper
mclust 5: Clustering, Classification and Density Estimation Using Gaussian Finite Mixture Models (p. 289)
Luca Scrucca, Michael Fop, T. Brendan Murphy, Adrian E. Raftery
clustering.sc.dp: Optimal Clustering with Sequential Constraint by Using Dynamic Programming (p. 318)
Tibor Szkaliczki
progenyClust: an R package for Progeny Clustering (p. 328)
Chenyue W. Hu, Amina A. Qutub
statmod: Probability Calculations for the Inverse Gaussian Distribution (p. 339)
Göknur Giner, Gordon K. Smyth
Using DECIPHER v2.0 to Analyze Big Biological Sequence Data in R (p. 352)
Erik S. Wright
R Packages to Aid in Handling Web Access Logs (p. 360)
Oliver Keyes, Bob Rudis, Jay Jacobs
Nonparametric Tests for the Interaction in Two-way Factorial Designs Using R (p. 367)
Jos Feys
GMDH: An R Package for Short Term Forecasting via GMDH-Type Neural Network Algorithms (p. 379)
Osman Dag, Ceylan Yozgatligil
sbtools: A Package Connecting R to Cloud-based Data for Collaborative Online Research (p. 387)
Luke A Winslow, Scott Chamberlain, Alison P Appling, Jordan S Read
News and Notes
News from the Bioconductor Project (pp. 404-405)
Bioconductor Core Team
Changes on CRAN (pp. 402-403)
Kurt Hornik, Achim Zeileis
Changes in R (pp. 406-415)
The R Core Team
Conference Report: useR! 2016 (pp. 399-401)
Joseph Rickert