'testthat' Unit Test Enhancements

Enhance package 'testthat' by allowing tests to be attached to the function/object they test. This allows to keep functional and unit test code together.

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, 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>.

Circular Genomic Permutation using Genome Wide Association p-Values

Circular genomic permutation approach uses genome wide association studies (GWAS) results to establish the significance of pathway/gene-set associations whilst accounting for genomic structure(Cabrera et al (2012) ). All single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the GWAS are placed in a 'circular genome' according to their location. Then the complete set of SNP association p-values are permuted by rotation with respect to the SNPs' genomic locations. Two testing frameworks are available: permutations at the gene level, and permutations at the SNP level. The permutation at the gene level uses Fisher's combination test to calculate a single gene p-value, followed by the hypergeometric test. The SNP count methodology maps each SNP to pathways/gene-sets and calculates the proportion of SNPs for the real and the permutated datasets above a pre-defined threshold. Genomicper requires a matrix of GWAS association p-values and SNPs annotation to genes. Pathways can be obtained from within the package or can be provided by the user.

Unimodal Penalized Spline Regression using B-Splines

Univariate spline regression. It is possible to add the shape constraint of unimodality and predefined or self-defined penalties on the B-spline coefficients.

Moving Sum Based Procedures for Changes in the Mean

Implementations of MOSUM-based statistical procedures and algorithms for detecting multiple changes in the mean. This comprises the MOSUM procedure for estimating multiple mean changes from Eichinger and Kirch (2018) and the multiscale algorithmic extension from Cho and Kirch (2022) , as well as the bootstrap procedure for generating confidence intervals about the locations of change points as proposed in Cho and Kirch (2022) . See also Meier, Kirch and Cho (2021) which accompanies the R package.

Fitting Ising Models Using the ELasso Method

This network estimation procedure eLasso, which is based on the Ising model, combines l1-regularized logistic regression with model selection based on the Extended Bayesian Information Criterion (EBIC). EBIC is a fit measure that identifies relevant relationships between variables. The resulting network consists of variables as nodes and relevant relationships as edges. Can deal with binary data.

Document Unit Tests Roxygen-Style

Much as 'roxygen2' allows one to document functions in the same file as the function itself, 'roxut' allows one to write the unit tests in the same file as the function. Once processed, the unit tests are moved to the appropriate directory. Currently supports 'testthat' and 'tinytest' frameworks. The 'roxygen2' package provides much of the infrastructure.

Reading and Writing Open Data Format Files

The Open Data Format (ODF) is a new, non-proprietary, multilingual, metadata enriched, and zip-compressed data format with metadata structured in the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Codebook standard. This package allows reading and writing of data files in the Open Data Format (ODF) in R, and displaying metadata in different languages. For further information on the Open Data Format, see < https://opendataformat.github.io/>.

Tools for Biological Survey Planning

A collection of tools that allows users to plan systems of sampling sites, increasing the efficiency of biodiversity monitoring by considering the relationship between environmental and geographic conditions in a region. The options for selecting sampling sites included here differ from other implementations in that they consider the environmental and geographic conditions of a region to suggest sampling sites that could increase the efficiency of efforts dedicated to monitoring biodiversity. The methods proposed here are new in the sense that they combine various criteria and points previously made in related literature; some of the theoretical and methodological bases considered are described in: Arita et al. (2011) , Soberón and Cavner (2015) , and Soberón et al. (2021).

Tests on Properties of Space-Time Covariance Functions

Tests on properties of space-time covariance functions. Tests on symmetry, separability and for assessing different forms of non-separability are available. Moreover tests on some classes of covariance functions, such that the classes of product-sum models, Gneiting models and integrated product models have been provided. It is the companion R package to the papers of Cappello, C., De Iaco, S., Posa, D., 2018, Testing the type of non-separability and some classes of space-time covariance function models and Cappello, C., De Iaco, S., Posa, D., 2020, covatest: an R package for selecting a class of space-time covariance functions .