Convert Spatial Data Using Tidy Tables

Tools to convert from specific formats to more general forms of spatial data. Using tables to store the actual entities present in spatial data provides flexibility, and the functions here deliberately minimize the level of interpretation applied, leaving that for specific applications. Includes support for simple features, round-trip for 'Spatial' classes and long-form tables, analogous to 'ggplot2::fortify'. There is also a more 'normal form' representation that decomposes simple features and their kin to tables of objects, parts, and unique coordinates.

Agro-Climatic Data by County

The functions are designed to calculate the most widely-used county-level variables in agricultural production or agricultural-climatic and weather analyses. To operate some functions in this package needs download of the bulk PRISM raster. See the examples, testing versions and more details from: < https://github.com/ysd2004/acdcR>.

Export Database Tables to 'Parquet'

Tools for exporting 'PostgreSQL' tables to 'Parquet' files, with support for chunked writes, column type overrides, and timezone-aware timestamp handling. Includes functions for maintaining a local 'Parquet' data library sourced from 'WRDS' (Wharton Research Data Services), with update-checking based on table metadata, and archive management utilities for versioning local data files. See Gow and Ding (2024) "Empirical Research in Accounting: Tools and Methods" .

Learn and Experiment with Music Theory

An aid for learning and using music theory. You can build chords, scales, and chord progressions using 12-note equal temperament tuning (12-ET) or user-defined tuning. Includes functions to visualize notes on a piano using ASCII plots in the console and to plot waveforms using base graphics. It allows simple playback of notes and chords using the 'audio' package.

Gradient and Vesselness Tools for Arrays and NIfTI Images

Simple functions for calculating the image gradient, image hessian, volume ratio filter, and Frangi vesselness filter of 3-dimensional volumes.

Tests of Matrix Structure for Construct Validation

Tests for block-diagonal structure in symmetric matrices (e.g. correlation matrices) under the null hypothesis of exchangeable off-diagonal elements. As described in Segal et al. (2019), these tests can be useful for construct validation either by themselves or as a complement to confirmatory factor analysis. Monte Carlo methods are used to approximate the permutation p-value with Hubert's Gamma (Hubert, 1976) and a t-statistic. This package also implements the chi-squared statistic described by Steiger (1980). Please see Segal, et al. (2019) for more information.

Confidence Intervals for Exceedance Probability

Computes confidence intervals for the exceedance probability of normally distributed estimators. Currently only supports general linear models. Please see Segal (2019) for more information.

Calculate Crosstab and Topline Tables of Weighted Survey Data

Calculate common types of tables for weighted survey data. Options include topline and (2-way and 3-way) crosstab tables of categorical or ordinal data as well as summary tables of weighted numeric variables. Optionally, include the margin of error at selected confidence intervals including the design effect. The design effect is calculated as described by Kish (1965) beginning on page 257. Output takes the form of tibbles (simple data frames). This package conveniently handles labelled data, such as that commonly used by 'Stata' and 'SPSS.' Complex survey design is not supported at this time.

Parsimonious Families of Hidden Markov Models for Matrix-Variate Longitudinal Data

Implements three families of parsimonious hidden Markov models (HMMs) for matrix-variate longitudinal data using the Expectation-Conditional Maximization (ECM) algorithm. The package supports matrix-variate normal, t, and contaminated normal distributions as emission distributions. For each hidden state, parsimony is achieved through the eigen-decomposition of the covariance matrices associated with the emission distribution. This approach results in a comprehensive set of 98 parsimonious HMMs for each type of emission distribution. Atypical matrix detection is also supported, utilizing the fitted (heavy-tailed) models.

Download and Process Oklahoma Mesonet Data

A collection of functions to download and process weather data from the Oklahoma Mesonet < https://mesonet.org>. Functions are available for downloading station metadata, downloading Mesonet time series (MTS) files, importing MTS files into R, and converting soil temperature change measurements into soil matric potential and volumetric soil moisture.