R Interface to Proximal Interior Point Quadratic Programming Solver

An embedded proximal interior point quadratic programming solver, which can solve dense and sparse quadratic programs, described in Schwan, Jiang, Kuhn, and Jones (2023) . Combining an infeasible interior point method with the proximal method of multipliers, the algorithm can handle ill-conditioned convex quadratic programming problems without the need for linear independence of the constraints. The solver is written in header only 'C++ 14' leveraging the 'Eigen' library for vectorized linear algebra. For small dense problems, vectorized instructions and cache locality can be exploited more efficiently. Allocation free problem updates and re-solves are also provided.

Transparent Assessment Framework for Reproducible Research

Functions to organize data, methods, and results used in scientific analyses. A TAF analysis consists of four scripts (data.R, model.R, output.R, report.R) that are run sequentially. Each script starts by reading files from a previous step and ends with writing out files for the next step. Convenience functions are provided to version control the required data and software, run analyses, clean residues from previous runs, manage files, manipulate tables, and produce figures. With a focus on stability and reproducible analyses, TAF is designed to have no package dependencies. TAF forms a base layer for the 'icesTAF' package and other scientific applications.

Tools to Create, Use, and Convert ecocomDP Data

Work with the Ecological Community Data Design Pattern. 'ecocomDP' is a flexible data model for harmonizing ecological community surveys, in a research question agnostic format, from source data published across repositories, and with methods that keep the derived data up-to-date as the underlying sources change. Described in O'Brien et al. (2021), .

General-Purpose Phase-Type Functions

General implementation of core function from phase-type theory. 'PhaseTypeR' can be used to model continuous and discrete phase-type distributions, both univariate and multivariate. The package includes functions for outputting the mean and (co)variance of phase-type distributions; their density, probability and quantile functions; functions for random draws; functions for reward-transformation; and functions for plotting the distributions as networks. For more information on these functions please refer to Bladt and Nielsen (2017, ISBN: 978-1-4939-8377-3) and Campillo Navarro (2019) < https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/order-statistics-and-multivariate-discrete-phase-type-distributio>.

Bindings for the 'Geospatial' Data Abstraction Library

Provides bindings to the 'Geospatial' Data Abstraction Library ('GDAL') (>= 1.11.4) and access to projection/transformation operations from the 'PROJ' library. Please note that 'rgdal' will be retired during October 2023, plan transition to sf/stars/'terra' functions using 'GDAL' and 'PROJ' at your earliest convenience (see < https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/05/15/evolution4.html> and earlier blogs for guidance). Use is made of classes defined in the 'sp' package. Raster and vector map data can be imported into R, and raster and vector 'sp' objects exported. The 'GDAL' and 'PROJ' libraries are external to the package, and, when installing the package from source, must be correctly installed first; it is important that 'GDAL' < 3 be matched with 'PROJ' < 6. From 'rgdal' 1.5-8, installed with to 'GDAL' >=3, 'PROJ' >=6 and 'sp' >= 1.4, coordinate reference systems use 'WKT2_2019' strings, not 'PROJ' strings. 'Windows' and 'macOS' binaries (including 'GDAL', 'PROJ' and their dependencies) are provided on 'CRAN'.

Nonparametric and Cox-Based Estimation of Average Treatment Effects in Competing Risks

Estimation of average treatment effects (ATE) of point interventions on time-to-event outcomes with K competing risks (K can be 1). The method uses propensity scores and inverse probability weighting for emulation of baseline randomization, which is described in Charpignon et al. (2022) .

'Drat' R Archive Template

Creation and use of R Repositories via helper functions to insert packages into a repository, and to add repository information to the current R session. Two primary types of repositories are support: gh-pages at GitHub, as well as local repositories on either the same machine or a local network. Drat is a recursive acronym: Drat R Archive Template.

Nonstationary Small Area Estimation

Executes nonstationary Fay-Herriot model and nonstationary generalized linear mixed model for small area estimation.The empirical best linear unbiased predictor (EBLUP) under stationary and nonstationary Fay-Herriot models and empirical best predictor (EBP) under nonstationary generalized linear mixed model along with the mean squared error estimation are included. EBLUP for prediction of non-sample area is also included under both stationary and nonstationary Fay-Herriot models. This extension to the Fay-Herriot model that accounts for the presence of spatial nonstationarity was developed by Hukum Chandra, Nicola Salvati and Ray Chambers (2015) and nonstationary generalized linear mixed model was developed by Hukum Chandra, Nicola Salvati and Ray Chambers (2017) . This package is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Hukum Chandra who passed away while the package creation was in progress.

The R Interface to 'SyncroSim'

'SyncroSim' is a generalized framework for managing scenario-based datasets (< https://syncrosim.com/>). 'rsyncrosim' provides an interface to 'SyncroSim'. Simulation models can be added to 'SyncroSim' in order to transform these datasets, taking advantage of general features such as defining scenarios of model inputs, running Monte Carlo simulations, and summarizing model outputs. 'rsyncrosim' requires 'SyncroSim' 2.3.5 or higher (API documentation: < https://docs.syncrosim.com/>).

Nonparametric Models for Longitudinal Data

Support the book: Wu CO and Tian X (2018). Nonparametric Models for Longitudinal Data. Chapman & Hall/CRC (to appear); and provide fit for using global and local smoothing methods for the conditional-mean and conditional-distribution based models with longitudinal Data.