On behalf of the editorial board, I am pleased to present Volume 16
Issue 4 of the R Journal.
In this issue
News from CRAN, RForwards, and Bioconductor are included in this
issue.
This issue features 10 contributed research articles relating to R
packages on a diverse range of topics. All packages are available on
CRAN. Supplementary material with fully reproducible code is available
for download from the Journal website. Topics covered in this issue are
the following.
Time series and Survival Analyses
- Disaggregating Time-Series with Many Indicators: An Overview of the
DisaggregateTS Package
- survivalSL: an R Package for Predicting Survival by a Super
Learner
Modeling and Inference
- IRTest: An R Package for Item Response Theory with Estimation of
Latent Distribution
- Canonical Correlation Analysis of Survey Data: The SurveyCC R
Package
- LMest: An R Package for Estimating Generalized Latent Markov
Models
- MultiStatM: Multivariate Statistical Methods in R
- Calculating Standardised Indices Using SEI
Computational Statistics
- GPUmatrix: Seamlessly harness the power of GPU computing in R
- Splinets – Orthogonal Splines for Functional Data Analysis
Graphics
- UpAndDownPlots: An R Package for Displaying Absolute and Percentage
Changes