Table of Contents
Editorial (pp. 4-5)
Roger Bivand
Contributed Research Articles
anchoredDistr: a Package for the Bayesian Inversion of Geostatistical Parameters with Multi-type and Multi-scale Data (p. 6)
Heather Savoy, Falk Heße, Yoram Rubin
dGAselID: An R Package for Selecting a Variable Number of Features in High Dimensional Data (p. 18)
Nicolae Teodor Melita, Stefan Holban
Allele Imputation and Haplotype Determination from Databases Composed of Nuclear Families (p. 35)
Nathan Medina-Rodríguez, Ángelo Santana
Visualization of Regression Models Using visreg (p. 56)
Patrick Breheny, Woodrow Burchett
fourierin: An R package to compute Fourier integrals (p. 72)
Guillermo Basulto-Elias, Alicia Carriquiry, Kris De Brabanter, Daniel J. Nordman
Discrete Time Markov Chains with R (p. 84)
Giorgio Alfredo Spedicato
CRTgeeDR: an R Package for Doubly Robust Generalized Estimating Equations Estimations in Cluster Randomized Trials with Missing Data (p. 105)
Melanie Prague, Rui Wang, Victor De Gruttola
queueing: A Package For Analysis Of Queueing Networks and Models in R (p. 116)
Pedro Cañadilla Jiménez, Yolanda Román Montoya
ctmcd: An R Package for Estimating the Parameters of a Continuous-Time Markov Chain from Discrete-Time Data (p. 127)
Marius Pfeuffer
Furniture for Quantitative Scientists (p. 142)
Tyson S. Barrett, Emily Brignone
BayesBD: An R Package for Bayesian Inference on Image Boundaries (p. 149)
Nicholas Syring, Meng Li
arulesViz: Interactive Visualization of Association Rules with R (p. 163)
Michael Hahsler
ManlyMix: An R Package for Manly Mixture Modeling (p. 176)
Xuwen Zhu, Volodymyr Melnykov
adegraphics: An S4 Lattice-Based Package for the Representation of Multivariate Data (p. 198)
Aurélie Siberchicot, Alice Julien-Laferrière, Anne- Béatrice Dufour, Jean Thioulouse, Stéphane Dray
carx: an R Package to Estimate Censored Autoregressive Time Series with Exogenous Covariates (p. 213)
Chao Wang, Kung-Sik Chan
liureg: A Comprehensive R Package for the Liu Estimation of Linear Regression Model with Collinear Regressors (p. 232)
Muhammad Imdadullah, Muhammad Aslam, Saima Altaf
A Tidy Data Model for Natural Language Processing using cleanNLP (p. 248)
Taylor Arnold
mle.tools: An R Package for Maximum Likelihood Bias Correction (p. 268)
Josmar Mazucheli, André Felipe B. Menezes, Saralees Nadarajah
afmToolkit: an R Package for Automated AFM Force-Distance Curves Analysis (p. 291)
Rafael Benítez, Vicente J. Bolós, José-Luis Toca- Herrera
The welchADF Package for Robust Hypothesis Testing in Unbalanced Multivariate Mixed Models with Heteroscedastic and Non-normal Data (p. 309)
Pablo J. Villacorta
ider: Intrinsic Dimension Estimation with R (p. 329)
Hideitsu Hino
rpsftm: An R Package for Rank Preserving Structural Failure Time Models (p. 342)
Annabel Allison, Ian R White, Simon Bond
anomalyDetection: Implementation of Augmented Network Log Anomaly Detection Procedures (p. 354)
Robert J. Gutierrez, Bradley C. Boehmke, Kenneth W. Bauer, Cade M. Saie, Trevor J. Bihl
Simulating Noisy, Nonparametric, and Multivariate Discrete Patterns (p. 366)
Ruby Sharma, Sajal Kumar, Hua Zhong, Mingzhou Song
glmmTMB Balances Speed and Flexibility Among Packages for Zero-inflated Generalized Linear Mixed Modeling (p. 378)
Mollie E. Brooks, Kasper Kristensen, Koen J. van Benthem, Arni Magnusson, Casper W. Berg, Anders Nielsen, Hans J. Skaug, Martin Mächler, Benjamin M. Bolker
Simulating Probabilistic Long-Term Effects in Models with Temporal Dependence (p. 401)
Christopher Gandrud, Laron K. Williams
RQGIS: Integrating R with QGIS for Statistical Geocomputing (p. 409)
Jannes Muenchow, Patrick Schratz, Alexander Brenning
Partial Rank Data with the hyper2 Package: Likelihood Functions for Generalized Bradley-Terry Models (p. 429)
Robin K. S. Hankin
riskRegression: Predicting the Risk of an Event using Cox Regression Models (p. 440)
Brice Ozenne, Anne Lyngholm Sørensen, Thomas Scheike, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Thomas Alexander Gerds
LeArEst: Length and Area Estimation from Data Measured with Additive Error (p. 461)
Mirta Benšić, Petar Taler, Safet Hamedović, Emmanuel Karlo Nyarko, Kristian Sabo
Splitting It Up: The spduration Split-Population Duration Regression Package for Time-Varying Covariates (p. 474)
Andreas Beger, Daniel W. Hill, Jr., Nils. W. Metternich, Shahryar Minhas, Michael D. Ward
Bayesian Regression Models for Interval-censored Data in R (p. 487)
Clifford Anderson-Bergman
openEBGM: An R Implementation of the Gamma-Poisson Shrinker Data Mining Model (p. 499)
Travis Canida, John Ihrie
rentrez: An R package for the NCBI eUtils API (p. 520)
David J. Winter
An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R (p. 527)
Carl Boettiger, Dirk Eddelbuettel
News and Notes
News from the Bioconductor Project (p. 567)
Bioconductor Core Team
Changes in R (pp. 568-570)
R Core Team
Changes on CRAN (pp. 564-566)
Kurt Hornik, Uwe Ligges, Achim Zeileis
Forwards Column (pp. 541-552)
Stella Bollmann, Dianne Cook, Jasmine Dumas, John Fox, Julie Josse, Oliver Keyes, Carolin Strobl, Heather Turner, Rudolf Debelak
R Foundation News (p. 563)
Torsten Hothorn
Conference Report: R in Insurance 2017 (pp. 539-540)
Nicolas Baradel, Christophe Dutang, Caroline Hillairet
R Teaching Column (pp. 553-562)
Matthias Gehrke, Reed Davis, Norman Matloff, Paul Thompson, Tiffany Chen, Emily Watkins, Laurel Beckett
Conference Report: useR!2017 (pp. 537-538)
Tobias Verbeke