High Performance Colour Space Manipulation

The encoding of colour can be handled in many different ways, using different colour spaces. As different colour spaces have different uses, efficient conversion between these representations are important. The 'farver' package provides a set of functions that gives access to very fast colour space conversion and comparisons implemented in C++, and offers speed improvements over the 'convertColor' function in the 'grDevices' package.

Toolbox for Pseudo and Quasi Random Number Generation and Random Generator Tests

Provides (1) pseudo random generators - general linear congruential generators, multiple recursive generators and generalized feedback shift register (SF-Mersenne Twister algorithm () and WELL () generators); (2) quasi random generators - the Torus algorithm, the Sobol sequence, the Halton sequence (including the Van der Corput sequence) and (3) some generator tests - the gap test, the serial test, the poker test, see, e.g., Gentle (2003) . Take a look at the Distribution task view of types and tests of random number generators. The package can be provided without the 'rngWELL' dependency on demand. Package in Memoriam of Diethelm and Barbara Wuertz.

Database Interface and MariaDB Driver

Implements a DBI-compliant interface to MariaDB (< https://mariadb.org/>) and MySQL (< https://www.mysql.com/>) databases.

Template Model Builder: A General Random Effect Tool Inspired by 'ADMB'

With this tool, a user should be able to quickly implement complex random effect models through simple C++ templates. The package combines 'CppAD' (C++ automatic differentiation), 'Eigen' (templated matrix-vector library) and 'CHOLMOD' (sparse matrix routines available from R) to obtain an efficient implementation of the applied Laplace approximation with exact derivatives. Key features are: Automatic sparseness detection, parallelism through 'BLAS' and parallel user templates.

Linear Predictive Models Based on the LIBLINEAR C/C++ Library

A wrapper around the LIBLINEAR C/C++ library for machine learning (available at < https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/liblinear/>). LIBLINEAR is a simple library for solving large-scale regularized linear classification and regression. It currently supports L2-regularized classification (such as logistic regression, L2-loss linear SVM and L1-loss linear SVM) as well as L1-regularized classification (such as L2-loss linear SVM and logistic regression) and L2-regularized support vector regression (with L1- or L2-loss). The main features of LiblineaR include multi-class classification (one-vs-the rest, and Crammer & Singer method), cross validation for model selection, probability estimates (logistic regression only) or weights for unbalanced data. The estimation of the models is particularly fast as compared to other libraries.

Multiple Precision Arithmetic

Multiple Precision Arithmetic (big integers and rationals, prime number tests, matrix computation), "arithmetic without limitations" using the C library GMP (GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic).

Data Manipulation Functions Implemented in C

Basic functions, implemented in C, for large data manipulation. Fast vectorised ifelse()/nested if()/switch() functions, psum()/pprod() functions equivalent to pmin()/pmax() plus others which are missing from base R. Most of these functions are callable at C level.

R and C++ Interfaces to 'spdlog' C++ Header Library for Logging

The mature and widely-used C++ logging library 'spdlog' by Gabi Melman provides many desirable features. This package bundles these header files for easy use by R packages from both their R and C or C++ code. Explicit use via 'LinkingTo:' is also supported. Also see the 'spdl' package which enhanced this package with a consistent R and C++ interface.

Primal or Dual Cone Projections with Routines for Constrained Regression

Routines doing cone projection and quadratic programming, as well as doing estimation and inference for constrained parametric regression and shape-restricted regression problems. See Mary C. Meyer (2013) for more details.

Quadratic Programming Solver using the 'OSQP' Library

Provides bindings to the 'OSQP' solver. The 'OSQP' solver is a numerical optimization package for solving convex quadratic programs written in 'C' and based on the alternating direction method of multipliers. See for details.