Efficient Implementation of K-Means++ Algorithm

Efficient implementation of K-Means++ algorithm. For more information see (1) "kmeans++ the advantages of the k-means++ algorithm" by David Arthur and Sergei Vassilvitskii (2007), Proceedings of the eighteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp. 1027-1035, and (2) "The Effectiveness of Lloyd-Type Methods for the k-Means Problem" by Rafail Ostrovsky, Yuval Rabani, Leonard J. Schulman and Chaitanya Swamy .

Analysing 'SNP' Data to Support Captive Breeding

Functions are provided that facilitate the analysis of SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) data to answer questions regarding captive breeding and relatedness between individuals. 'dartR.captive' is part of the 'dartRverse' suit of packages. Gruber et al. (2018) . Mijangos et al. (2022) .

'a la Carte' on Text (ConText) Embedding Regression

A fast, flexible and transparent framework to estimate context-specific word and short document embeddings using the 'a la carte' embeddings approach developed by Khodak et al. (2018) and evaluate hypotheses about covariate effects on embeddings using the regression framework developed by Rodriguez et al. (2021). New version of the package applies a new estimator to measure the distance between word embeddings as described in Green et al. (2025) .

Discounting and Compounding Calculations for Various Scenarios

Functions for compounding and discounting calculations included here serve as a complete reference for various scenarios of time value of money. Raymond M. Brooks (“Financial Management,” 2018, ISBN: 9780134730417). Sheridan Titman, Arthur J. Keown, John D. Martin (“Financial Management: Principles and Applications,” 2017, ISBN: 9780134417219). Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo, David Stangeland, Andras Marosi (“Fundamentals of Corporate Finance,” 2019, ISBN: 9780134735313). S. A. Hummelbrunner, Kelly Halliday, Ali R. Hassanlou (“Contemporary Business Mathematics with Canadian Applications,” 2020, ISBN: 9780135285015).

Geolocalização De Endereços Brasileiros (Geocoding Brazilian Addresses)

Método simples e eficiente de geolocalizar dados no Brasil. O pacote é baseado em conjuntos de dados espaciais abertos de endereços brasileiros, utilizando como fonte principal o Cadastro Nacional de Endereços para Fins Estatísticos (CNEFE). O CNEFE é publicado pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), órgão oficial de estatísticas e geografia do Brasil. (A simple and efficient method for geolocating data in Brazil. The package is based on open spatial datasets of Brazilian addresses, primarily using the Cadastro Nacional de Endereços para Fins Estatísticos (CNEFE), published by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), Brazil's official statistics and geography agency.)

Download Official Spatial Data Sets of Brazil

Easy access to official spatial data sets of Brazil. The package offers a wide range of spatial data sets available at various geographic scales and for various years with harmonized attributes, projection and fixed topology. All functions allow for seamless integration sf, DuckDB and Arrow.

Download and Processing of Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) Data of INMET-Brazil

A collection of functions for downloading and processing automatic weather station (AWS) data from INMET (Brazil’s National Institute of Meteorology), designed to support the estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ETo). The package facilitates streamlined access to meteorological data and aims to simplify analyses in agricultural and environmental contexts.

R Fortunes

A collection of fortunes from the R community.

Segment Images in Text Lines and Words

Find text lines in scanned images and segment the lines into words. Includes implementations of the paper 'Novel A* Path Planning Algorithm for Line Segmentation of Handwritten Documents' by Surinta O. et al (2014) available at < https://github.com/smeucci/LineSegm>, an implementation of 'A Statistical approach to line segmentation in handwritten documents' by Arivazhagan M. et al (2007) , and a wrapper for an image segmentation technique to detect words in text lines as described in the paper 'Scale Space Technique for Word Segmentation in Handwritten Documents' by Manmatha R. and Srimal N. (1999) paper at , wrapper for code available at < https://github.com/arthurflor23/text-segmentation>. Provides as well functionality to put cursive text in images upright using the approach defined in the paper 'A new normalization technique for cursive handwritten words' by Vinciarelli A. and Luettin J. (2001) .

Building a Concordance of Terms in a Series of Texts

Compute the frequency distribution of a search term in a series of texts. For example, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a total of 60 Sherlock Holmes stories, comprised of 54 short stories and 4 longer novels. I wanted to test my own subjective impression that, in many of the stories, Sherlock Holmes' popularity was used as bait to induce the reader to read a story that is essentially not primarily a Sherlock Holmes story. I used the term "Holmes" as a search pattern, since Watson would frequently address him by name, or use his name to describe something that he was doing. My hypothesis is that the frequency distribution of the search pattern "Holmes" is a good proxy for the degree to which a story is or is not truly a Sherlock Holmes story. The results are presented in a manuscript that is available as a vignette and online at < https://barryzee.github.io/Concordance/index.html>.