Table of Contents
Editorial (pp. 4-5)
Michael J. Kane
Contributed Research Articles
gk: An R Package for the g-and-k and Generalised g-and-h Distributions (p. 7)
Dennis Prangle
NlinTS: An R Package For Causality Detection in Time Series (p. 21)
Youssef Hmamouche
Mapping Smoothed Spatial Effect Estimates from Individual- Level Data: MapGAM (p. 32)
Lu Bai, Daniel L. Gillen, Scott M. Bartell, Verónica M. Vieira
mudfold: An R Package for Nonparametric IRT Modelling of Unfolding Processes (p. 49)
Spyros E. Balafas, Wim P. Krijnen, Wendy J. Post, Ernst C. Wit
tsmp: An R Package for Time Series with Matrix Profile (p. 76)
Francisco Bischoff, Pedro Pereira Rodrigues
Individual-Level Modelling of Infectious Disease Data: EpiILM (p. 87)
Vineetha Warriyar K. V., Waleed Almutiry, Rob Deardon
SurvBoost: An R Package for High-Dimensional Variable Selection in the Stratified Proportional Hazards Model via Gradient Boosting (p. 105)
Emily Morris, Kevin He, Yanming Li, Yi Li, Jian Kang
CoxPhLb: An R Package for Analyzing Length Biased Data under Cox Model (p. 118)
Chi Hyun Lee, Heng Zhou, Jing Ning, Diane D. Liu, Yu Shen
SortedEffects: Sorted Causal Effects in R (p. 131)
Shuowen Chen, Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Fernández-Val, Ye Luo
npordtests: An R Package of Nonparametric Tests for Equality of Location Against Ordered Alternatives (p. 147)
Bulent Altunkaynak, Hamza Gamgam
lspartition: Partitioning-Based Least Squares Regression (p. 172)
Matias D. Cattaneo, Max H. Farrell, Yingjie Feng
Skew-t Expected Information Matrix Evaluation and Use for Standard Error Calculations (p. 188)
R. Douglas Martin, Chindhanai Uthaisaad, Daniel Z. Xia
rcosmo: R Package for Analysis of Spherical, HEALPix and Cosmological Data (p. 206)
Daniel Fryer, Ming Li, Andriy Olenko
Tools for Analyzing R Code the Tidy Way (p. 226)
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, Sean Kross, Jeffrey Leek
spinifex: An R Package for Creating a Manual Tour of Low- dimensional Projections of Multivariate Data (p. 243)
Nicholas Spyrison, Dianne Cook
ari: The Automated R Instructor (p. 258)
Sean Kross, Jeffrey T. Leek, John Muschelli
CopulaCenR: Copula based Regression Models for Bivariate Censored Data in R (p. 266)
Tao Sun, Ying Ding
mistr: A Computational Framework for Mixture and Composite Distributions (p. 283)
Lukas Sablica, Kurt Hornik
difNLR: Generalized Logistic Regression Models for DIF and DDF Detection (p. 300)
Adéla Hladká, Patrícia Martinková
BayesMallows: An R Package for the Bayesian Mallows Model (p. 324)
Øystein Sørensen, Marta Crispino, Qinghua Liu, Valeria Vitelli
Variable Importance Plots—An Introduction to the vip Package (p. 343)
Brandon M. Greenwell, Bradley C. Boehmke
SimilaR: R Code Clone and Plagiarism Detection (p. 367)
Maciej Bartoszuk, Marek Gagolewski
Linear Fractional Stable Motion with the rlfsm R Package (p. 386)
Stepan Mazur, Dmitry Otryakhin
The R package NonProbEst for estimation in non-probability surveys (p. 406)
M. Rueda, R. Ferri-García, L. Castro
ProjectManagement: an R Package for Managing Projects (p. 419)
Juan Carlos Gonçalves-Dosantos1, Ignacio García-Jurado, Julián Costa
The Rockerverse: Packages and Applications for Containerisation with R (p. 437)
Daniel Nüst, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Dom Bennett, Robrecht Cannoodt, Dav Clark, Gergely Daróczi, Mark Edmondson, Colin Fay, Ellis Hughes, Lars Kjeldgaard, Sean Lopp, Ben Marwick, Heather Nolis, Jacqueline Nolis, Hong Ooi, Karthik Ram, Noam Ross, Lori Shepherd, Péter Sólymos, Tyson Lee Swetnam, Nitesh Turaga, Charlotte Van Petegem, Jason Williams, Craig Willis, Nan Xiao
S, R, and Data Science (p. 462)
John M. Chambers
Provenance of R’s Gradient Optimizers (p. 477)
John C. Nash
News and Notes
Changes on CRAN (pp. 485-497)
Kurt Hornik, Uwe Ligges, Achim Zeileis
R Foundation News (p. 498)
Torsten Hothorn
Conference Report: Why R? 2019 (pp. 484-494)
Michał Burdukiewicz, Filip Pietluch, Jarosław Chilimoniuk, Katarzyna Sidorczuk, Dominik Rafacz, Leon Eyrich Jessen, Stefan Rödiger, Marcin Kosiński, Piotr Wójcik