Table of Contents
Editorial (pp. 4-5)
Dianne Cook
Contributed Research Articles
Software Engineering and R Programming: A Call for Research (p. 6)
Melina Vidoni
We Need Trustworthy R Packages (p. 15)
William Michael Landau
The R Developer Community Does Have a Strong Software Engineering Culture (p. 18)
Maëlle Salmon, Karthik Ram
The R Quest: from Users to Developers (p. 22)
Simon Urbanek
Rejoinder: Software Engineering and R Programming (p. 25)
Melina Vidoni
g2f as a Novel Tool to Find and Fill Gaps in Metabolic Networks (p. 28)
Daniel Osorio, Kelly Botero, Andrés Pinzón Velasco, Nicolás Mendoza-Mejía, Felipe Rojas- Rodríguez, George Barreto, Janneth González
lg: An R package for Local Gaussian Approximations (p. 38)
Håkon Otneim
Estimating Social Influence Effects in Networks Using A Latent Space Adjusted Approach in R (p. 57)
Ran Xu
survidm: An R package for Inference and Prediction in an Illness-Death Model (p. 70)
Gustavo Soutinho, Marta Sestelo, Luís Meira-Machado
Multiple Imputation and Synthetic Data Generation with NPBayesImputeCat (p. 90)
Jingchen Hu, Olanrewaju Akande, Quanli Wang
msae: An R Package of Multivariate Fay-Herriot Models for Small Area Estimation (p. 111)
Novia Permatasari, Azka Ubaidillah
cat.dt: An R package for fast construction of accurate Computerized Adaptive Tests using Decision Trees (p. 123)
Javier Rodríguez-Cuadrado, Juan C. Laria, David Delgado-Gómez
A GUIded tour of Bayesian regression (p. 135)
Andrés Ramírez–Hassan, Mateo Graciano-Londoño
StratigrapheR: Concepts for Litholog Generation in R (p. 153)
Sébastien Wouters, Anne-Christine Da Silva, Frédéric Boulvain, Xavier Devleeschouwer
dad: an R Package for Visualisation, Classification and Discrimination of Multivariate Groups Modelled by their Densities (p. 179)
Rachid Boumaza, Pierre Santagostini, Smail Yousfi, Sabine Demotes-Mainard
NGSSEML: Non-Gaussian State Space with Exact Marginal Likelihood (p. 208)
Thiago R. Santos, Glaura C. Franco, Dani Gamerman
BayesSenMC: an R package for Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis of Misclassification (p. 228)
Jinhui Yang, Lifeng Lin, Haitao Chu
PAsso: an R Package for Assessing Partial Association between Ordinal Variables (p. 239)
Shaobo Li, Xiaorui Zhu, Yuejie Chen, Dungang Liu
bcmixed: A Package for Median Inference on Longitudinal Data with the Box–Cox Transformation (p. 253)
Kazushi Maruo, Ryota Ishii, Yusuke Yamaguchi, Masahiko Gosho
diproperm: An R Package for the DiProPerm Test (p. 266)
Andrew G. Allmon, J.S. Marron, Michael G. Hudgens
A Unifying Framework for Parallel and Distributed Processing in R using Futures (p. 273)
Henrik Bengtsson
MatchThem:: Matching and Weighting after Multiple Imputation (p. 292)
Farhad Pishgar, Noah Greifer, Clémence Leyrat, Elizabeth Stuart
EMSS: New EM-type algorithms for the Heckman selection model in R (p. 306)
Kexuan Yang, Sang Kyu Lee, Jun Zhao, Hyoung-Moon Kim
Analysis of Corneal Data in R with the rPACI Package (p. 321)
Darío Ramos-López, Ana D. Maldonado
MAINT.Data: Modelling and Analysing Interval Data in R (p. 336)
A. Pedro Duarte Silva, Paula Brito, Peter Filzmoser, José G. Dias
Robust and Efficient Optimization Using a Marquardt- Levenberg Algorithm with R Package marqLevAlg (p. 365)
Viviane Philipps, Boris P. Hejblum, Mélanie Prague, Daniel Commenges, Cécile Proust-Lima
DRHotNet: An R package for detecting differential risk hotspots on a linear network (p. 380)
Álvaro Briz-Redón, Francisco Martínez-Ruiz, Francisco Montes
tramME: Mixed-Effects Transformation Models Using Template Model Builder (p. 398)
Bálint Tamási, Torsten Hothorn
miRecSurv Package: Prentice-Williams-Peterson Models with Multiple Imputation of Unknown Number of Previous Episodes (p. 419)
David Moriña, Gilma Hernández-Herrera, Albert Navarro
An R package for Non-Normal Multivariate Distributions: Simulation and Probability Calculations from Multivariate Lomax (Pareto Type II) and Other Related Distributions (p. 427)
Zhixin Lun, Ravindra Khattree
CompModels: A Suite of Computer Model Test Functions for Bayesian Optimization (p. 441)
Tony Pourmohamad
spfilteR: An R package for Semiparametric Spatial Filtering with Eigenvectors in (Generalized) Linear Models (p. 450)
Sebastian Juhl
SIQR: An R Package for Single-index Quantile Regression (p. 460)
Tianhai Zu, Yan Yu
mgee2: An R package for marginal analysis of longitudinal ordinal data with misclassified responses and covariates (p. 471)
Yuliang Xu, Shuo Shuo Liu, Grace Y. Yi
A New Versatile Discrete Distribution (p. 485)
Rolf Turner
Automatic Time Series Forecasting with Ata Method in R: ATAforecasting Package (p. 507)
Ali Sabri Taylan, Güçkan Yapar, Hanife Taylan Selamlar
PASSED: Calculate Power and Sample Size for Two Sample Tests (p. 542)
Jinpu Li, Ryan P. Knigge, Kaiyi Chen, Emily V. Leary
spNetwork: A Package for Network Kernel Density Estimation (p. 561)
Jeremy Gelb
bssm: Bayesian Inference of Non-linear and Non-Gaussian State Space Models in R (p. 578)
Jouni Helske, Matti Vihola
openSkies - Integration of Aviation Data into the R Ecosystem (p. 590)
Rafael Ayala, Daniel Ayala, Lara Sellés Vidal, David Ruiz
Generalized Linear Randomized Response Modeling using GLMMRR (p. 600)
Jean-Paul Fox, Konrad Klotzke, Duco Veen
Visual Diagnostics for Constrained Optimisation with Application to Guided Tours (p. 624)
H. Sherry Zhang, Dianne Cook, Ursula Laa, Nicolas Langrené, Patricia Menéndez
volesti: Volume Approximation and Sampling for Convex Polytopes in R (p. 642)
Apostolos Chalkis, Vissarion Fisikopoulos
Elliptical Symmetry Tests in R (p. 661)
Slad̄ana Babić, Christophe Ley, Marko Palangetić
The vote Package: Single Transferable Vote and Other Electoral Systems in R (p. 673)
Adrian E. Raftery, Hana Ševčíková, Bernard W. Silverman
RPESE: Risk and Performance Estimators Standard Errors with Serially Dependent Data (p. 697)
Anthony-Alexander Christidis, R. Douglas Martin
RobustBF: An R Package for Robust Solution to the Behrens- Fisher Problem (p. 713)
Gamze Güven, Şükrü Acıtaş, Hatice Şamkar, Birdal Şenoğlu
News and Notes
News from the Bioconductor Project (p. 741)
Bioconductor Core Team
Changes in R (pp. 734-737)
Tomas Kalibera, Sebastian Meyer, Kurt Hornik, Gennadiy Starostin, Luke Tierney
Changes on CRAN (pp. 738-740)
Kurt Hornik, Uwe Ligges, Achim Zeileis
News from the Forwards Taskforce (pp. 742-743)
Heather Turner
R Foundation News (pp. 745-746)
Torsten Hothorn