Collect, Assemble and Model Air Pollution, Weather and Health Data

Collection of utility functions used in the KEHRA project (see http://www.brunel.ac.uk/ife/britishcouncil). It refers to the multidimensional analysis of air pollution, weather and health data.

API Wrapper Around 'Postcodes.io'

Free UK geocoding using data from Office for National Statistics. It is using several functions to get information about post codes, outward codes, reverse geocoding, nearest post codes/outward codes, validation, or randomly generate a post code. API wrapper around < https://postcodes.io>.

UK National River Flow Archive Data from R

Utility functions to retrieve data from the UK National River Flow Archive (< https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/>, terms and conditions: < https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/help/costs-terms-and-conditions>). The package contains R wrappers to the UK NRFA data temporary-API. There are functions to retrieve stations falling in a bounding box, to generate a map and extracting time series and general information. The package is fully described in Vitolo et al (2016) "rnrfa: An R package to Retrieve, Filter and Visualize Data from the UK National River Flow Archive" < https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016/RJ-2016-036/RJ-2016-036.pdf>.

Access Meetup Data

Provides programmatic access to the 'Meetup' 'GraphQL' API (< https://www.meetup.com/graphql/>), enabling users to retrieve information about groups, events, and members from 'Meetup' (< https://www.meetup.com/>). Supports authentication via 'OAuth2' and includes functions for common queries and data manipulation tasks.

Accurate Timing Functions

Provides infrastructure to accurately measure and compare the execution time of R expressions.

Conversion of R Regression Output to LaTeX or HTML Tables

Converts coefficients, standard errors, significance stars, and goodness-of-fit statistics of statistical models into LaTeX tables or HTML tables/MS Word documents or to nicely formatted screen output for the R console for easy model comparison. A list of several models can be combined in a single table. The output is highly customizable. New model types can be easily implemented. Details can be found in Leifeld (2013), JStatSoft .)

Statistical Inference of Vine Copulas

Provides tools for the statistical analysis of regular vine copula models, see Aas et al. (2009) and Dissman et al. (2013) . The package includes tools for parameter estimation, model selection, simulation, goodness-of-fit tests, and visualization. Tools for estimation, selection and exploratory data analysis of bivariate copula models are also provided.

Work with Hyperspectral Data, i.e. Spectra + Meta Information (Spatial, Time, Concentration, ...)

Comfortable ways to work with hyperspectral data sets. I.e. spatially or time-resolved spectra, or spectra with any other kind of information associated with each of the spectra. The spectra can be data as obtained in XRF, UV/VIS, Fluorescence, AES, NIR, IR, Raman, NMR, MS, etc. More generally, any data that is recorded over a discretized variable, e.g. absorbance = f(wavelength), stored as a vector of absorbance values for discrete wavelengths is suitable.

MCMC, Particle Filtering, and Programmable Hierarchical Modeling

A system for writing hierarchical statistical models largely compatible with 'BUGS' and 'JAGS', writing nimbleFunctions to operate models and do basic R-style math, and compiling both models and nimbleFunctions via custom-generated C++. 'NIMBLE' includes default methods for MCMC, Laplace Approximation, deterministic nested approximations, Monte Carlo Expectation Maximization, and some other tools. The nimbleFunction system makes it easy to do things like implement new MCMC samplers from R, customize the assignment of samplers to different parts of a model from R, and compile the new samplers automatically via C++ alongside the samplers 'NIMBLE' provides. 'NIMBLE' extends the 'BUGS'/'JAGS' language by making it extensible: New distributions and functions can be added, including as calls to external compiled code. Although most people think of MCMC as the main goal of the 'BUGS'/'JAGS' language for writing models, one can use 'NIMBLE' for writing arbitrary other kinds of model-generic algorithms as well. A full User Manual is available at < https://r-nimble.org>.

Convenience Functions for Arrays

Some convenient functions to work with arrays.