Construct Reproducible Analytic Data Sets as R Packages

A framework to help construct R data packages in a reproducible manner. Potentially time consuming processing of raw data sets into analysis ready data sets is done in a reproducible manner and decoupled from the usual 'R CMD build' process so that data sets can be processed into R objects in the data package and the data package can then be shared, built, and installed by others without the need to repeat computationally costly data processing. The package maintains data provenance by turning the data processing scripts into package vignettes, as well as enforcing documentation and version checking of included data objects. Data packages can be version controlled on 'GitHub', and used to share data for manuscripts, collaboration and reproducible research.

General Purpose R Interface to 'Solr'

Provides a set of functions for querying and parsing data from 'Solr' (< https://solr.apache.org/>) 'endpoints' (local and remote), including search, 'faceting', 'highlighting', 'stats', and 'more like this'. In addition, some functionality is included for creating, deleting, and updating documents in a 'Solr' 'database'.

Evaluate Clinical Prediction Models by Net Monetary Benefit

Estimates when and where a model-guided treatment strategy may outperform a treat-all or treat-none approach by Monte Carlo simulation and evaluation of the Net Monetary Benefit. Details can be viewed in Parsons et al. (2023) .

Accesses Weather Data from the Iowa Environment Mesonet

Allows to get weather data from Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) stations (airports) in the whole world thanks to the Iowa Environment Mesonet website.

'Microsoft Academic' API Client

The 'Microsoft Academic Knowledge' API provides programmatic access to scholarly articles in the 'Microsoft Academic Graph' (< https://academic.microsoft.com/>). Includes methods matching all 'Microsoft Academic' API routes, including search, graph search, text similarity, and interpret natural language query string.

Setup, Run and Analyze 'NetLogo' Model Simulations from 'R' via 'XML'

Setup, run and analyze 'NetLogo' (< https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/>) model simulations in 'R'. 'nlrx' experiments use a similar structure as 'NetLogos' Behavior Space experiments. However, 'nlrx' offers more flexibility and additional tools for running and analyzing complex simulation designs and sensitivity analyses. The user defines all information that is needed in an intuitive framework, using class objects. Experiments are submitted from 'R' to 'NetLogo' via 'XML' files that are dynamically written, based on specifications defined by the user. By nesting model calls in future environments, large simulation design with many runs can be executed in parallel. This also enables simulating 'NetLogo' experiments on remote high performance computing machines. In order to use this package, 'Java' and 'NetLogo' (>= 5.3.1) need to be available on the executing system.

NASA POWER API Client

An API client for NASA POWER global meteorology, surface solar energy and climatology data API. POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources) data are freely available for download with varying spatial resolutions dependent on the original data and with several temporal resolutions depending on the POWER parameter and community. This work is funded through the NASA Earth Science Directorate Applied Science Program. For more on the data themselves, the methodologies used in creating, a web- based data viewer and web access, please see < https://power.larc.nasa.gov/>.

Interface to the Search API for 'PLoS' Journals

A programmatic interface to the 'SOLR' based search API (< http://api.plos.org/>) provided by the Public Library of Science journals to search their articles. Functions are included for searching for articles, retrieving articles, making plots, doing 'faceted' searches, 'highlight' searches, and viewing results of 'highlighted' searches in a browser.

Geocode with the OpenCage API

Geocode with the OpenCage API, either from place name to longitude and latitude (forward geocoding) or from longitude and latitude to the name and address of a location (reverse geocoding), see < https://opencagedata.com/>.

Extract Tables from PDF Documents

Bindings for the 'Tabula' < https://tabula.technology/> 'Java' library, which can extract tables from PDF files. This tool can reduce time and effort in data extraction processes in fields like investigative journalism. It allows for automatic and manual table extraction, the latter facilitated through a 'Shiny' interface, enabling manual areas selection\ with a computer mouse for data retrieval.