Interpolation and Extrapolation for Species Diversity

Provides simple functions to compute and plot two types (sample-size- and coverage-based) rarefaction and extrapolation curves for species diversity (Hill numbers) based on individual-based abundance data or sampling-unit- based incidence data; see Chao and others (2014, Ecological Monographs) for pertinent theory and methodologies, and Hsieh, Ma and Chao (2016, Methods in Ecology and Evolution) for an introduction of the R package.

Image Processing Library Based on 'CImg'

Fast image processing for images in up to 4 dimensions (two spatial dimensions, one time/depth dimension, one colour dimension). Provides most traditional image processing tools (filtering, morphology, transformations, etc.) as well as various functions for easily analysing image data using R. The package wraps 'CImg', < http://cimg.eu>, a simple, modern C++ library for image processing.

Extreme Gradient Boosting

Extreme Gradient Boosting, which is an efficient implementation of the gradient boosting framework from Chen & Guestrin (2016) . This package is its R interface. The package includes efficient linear model solver and tree learning algorithms. The package can automatically do parallel computation on a single machine which could be more than 10 times faster than existing gradient boosting packages. It supports various objective functions, including regression, classification and ranking. The package is made to be extensible, so that users are also allowed to define their own objectives easily.

Additional Univariate and Multivariate Distributions

Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for a number of univariate and multivariate distributions. This package implements the following distributions: Bernoulli, beta-binomial, beta-negative binomial, beta prime, Bhattacharjee, Birnbaum-Saunders, bivariate normal, bivariate Poisson, categorical, Dirichlet, Dirichlet-multinomial, discrete gamma, discrete Laplace, discrete normal, discrete uniform, discrete Weibull, Frechet, gamma-Poisson, generalized extreme value, Gompertz, generalized Pareto, Gumbel, half-Cauchy, half-normal, half-t, Huber density, inverse chi-squared, inverse-gamma, Kumaraswamy, Laplace, location-scale t, logarithmic, Lomax, multivariate hypergeometric, multinomial, negative hypergeometric, non-standard beta, normal mixture, Poisson mixture, Pareto, power, reparametrized beta, Rayleigh, shifted Gompertz, Skellam, slash, triangular, truncated binomial, truncated normal, truncated Poisson, Tukey lambda, Wald, zero-inflated binomial, zero-inflated negative binomial, zero-inflated Poisson.

Tools for Working with Posterior Distributions

Provides useful tools for both users and developers of packages for fitting Bayesian models or working with output from Bayesian models. The primary goals of the package are to: (a) Efficiently convert between many different useful formats of draws (samples) from posterior or prior distributions. (b) Provide consistent methods for operations commonly performed on draws, for example, subsetting, binding, or mutating draws. (c) Provide various summaries of draws in convenient formats. (d) Provide lightweight implementations of state of the art posterior inference diagnostics. References: Vehtari et al. (2021) .

Extended Structural Equation Modelling

Create structural equation models that can be manipulated programmatically. Models may be specified with matrices or paths (LISREL or RAM) Example models include confirmatory factor, multiple group, mixture distribution, categorical threshold, modern test theory, differential Fit functions include full information maximum likelihood, maximum likelihood, and weighted least squares. equations, state space, and many others. Support and advanced package binaries available at < https://openmx.ssri.psu.edu>. The software is described in Neale, Hunter, Pritikin, Zahery, Brick, Kirkpatrick, Estabrook, Bates, Maes, & Boker (2016) .

Structural Equation Modeling and Twin Modeling in R

Quickly create, run, and report structural equation models, and twin models. See '?umx' for help, and umx_open_CRAN_page("umx") for NEWS. Timothy C. Bates, Michael C. Neale, Hermine H. Maes, (2019). umx: A library for Structural Equation and Twin Modelling in R. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 22, 27-41. .

Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) and Its Complete Variant (CEEMDAN)

An R interface for libeemd (Luukko, Helske, Räsänen, 2016) , a C library of highly efficient parallelizable functions for performing the ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), its complete variant (CEEMDAN), the regular empirical mode decomposition (EMD), and bivariate EMD (BEMD). Due to the possible portability issues CRAN version no longer supports OpenMP, but you can install OpenMP-supported version from GitHub: < https://github.com/helske/Rlibeemd/>.

Space-Filling Random and Quasi-Random Sequences

Generates random and quasi-random space-filling sequences. Supports the following sequences: 'Halton', 'Sobol', 'Owen'-scrambled 'Sobol', 'Owen'-scrambled 'Sobol' with errors distributed as blue noise, progressive jittered, progressive multi-jittered ('PMJ'), 'PMJ' with blue noise, 'PMJ02', and 'PMJ02' with blue noise. Includes a 'C++' 'API'. Methods derived from "Constructing Sobol sequences with better two-dimensional projections" (2012) S. Joe and F. Y. Kuo, "Progressive Multi-Jittered Sample Sequences" (2018) < https://graphics.pixar.com/library/ProgressiveMultiJitteredSampling/paper.pdf> Christensen, P., Kensler, A. and Kilpatrick, C., and "A Low-Discrepancy Sampler that Distributes Monte Carlo Errors as a Blue Noise in Screen Space" (2019) E. Heitz, B. Laurent, O. Victor, C. David and I. Jean-Claude, .

Rmetrics - Chronological and Calendar Objects

The 'timeDate' class fulfils the conventions of the ISO 8601 standard as well as of the ANSI C and POSIX standards. Beyond these standards it provides the "Financial Center" concept which allows to handle data records collected in different time zones and mix them up to have always the proper time stamps with respect to your personal financial center, or alternatively to the GMT reference time. It can thus also handle time stamps from historical data records from the same time zone, even if the financial centers changed day light saving times at different calendar dates.