Articles published in the Dec. 2017 issue
Editorial
Roger Bivand 4
anchoredDistr: a Package for the Bayesian Inversion of Geostatistical Parameters with Multi-type and Multi-scale Data
Heather Savoy, Falk Heße and Yoram Rubin 6
dGAselID: An R Package for Selecting a Variable Number of Features in High Dimensional Data
Nicolae Teodor Melita and Stefan Holban 18
Allele Imputation and Haplotype Determination from Databases Composed of Nuclear Families
Nathan Medina-Rodríguez and Ángelo Santana 35
Visualization of Regression Models Using visreg
Patrick Breheny and Woodrow Burchett 56
fourierin: An R package to compute Fourier integrals
Guillermo Basulto-Elias, Alicia Carriquiry, Kris De Brabanter and Daniel J. Nordman 72
Discrete Time Markov Chains with R
Giorgio Alfredo Spedicato 84
CRTgeeDR: an R Package for Doubly Robust Generalized Estimating Equations Estimations in Cluster Randomized Trials with Missing Data
Melanie Prague, Rui Wang and Victor De Gruttola 105
queueing: A Package For Analysis Of Queueing Networks and Models in R
Pedro Cañadilla Jiménez and Yolanda Román Montoya 116
ctmcd: An R Package for Estimating the Parameters of a Continuous-Time Markov Chain from Discrete-Time Data
Marius Pfeuffer 127
Furniture for Quantitative Scientists
Tyson S. Barrett and Emily Brignone 142
BayesBD: An R Package for Bayesian Inference on Image Boundaries
Nicholas Syring and Meng Li 149
arulesViz: Interactive Visualization of Association Rules with R
Michael Hahsler 163
ManlyMix: An R Package for Manly Mixture Modeling
Xuwen Zhu and Volodymyr Melnykov 176
adegraphics: An S4 Lattice-Based Package for the Representation of Multivariate Data
Aurélie Siberchicot, Alice Julien-Laferrière, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, Jean Thioulouse and Stéphane Dray 198
carx: an R Package to Estimate Censored Autoregressive Time Series with Exogenous Covariates
Chao Wang and Kung-Sik Chan 213
liureg: A Comprehensive R Package for the Liu Estimation of Linear Regression Model with Collinear Regressors
Muhammad Imdadullah, Muhammad Aslam and Saima Altaf 232
A Tidy Data Model for Natural Language Processing using cleanNLP
Taylor Arnold 248
mle.tools: An R Package for Maximum Likelihood Bias Correction
Josmar Mazucheli, André Felipe B. Menezes and Saralees Nadarajah 268
afmToolkit: an R Package for Automated AFM Force-Distance Curves Analysis
Rafael Benítez, Vicente J. Bolós and José-Luis Toca-Herrera 291
The welchADF Package for Robust Hypothesis Testing in Unbalanced Multivariate Mixed Models with Heteroscedastic and Non-normal Data
Pablo J. Villacorta 309
ider: Intrinsic Dimension Estimation with R
Hideitsu Hino 329
rpsftm: An R Package for Rank Preserving Structural Failure Time Models
Annabel Allison, Ian R White and Simon Bond 342
anomalyDetection: Implementation of Augmented Network Log Anomaly Detection Procedures
Robert J. Gutierrez, Bradley C. Boehmke, Kenneth W. Bauer, Cade M. Saie and Trevor J. Bihl 354
Simulating Noisy, Nonparametric, and Multivariate Discrete Patterns
Ruby Sharma, Sajal Kumar, Hua Zhong and Mingzhou Song 366
glmmTMB Balances Speed and Flexibility Among Packages for Zero-inflated Generalized Linear Mixed Modeling
Mollie E. Brooks, Kasper Kristensen, Koen J. van Benthem, Arni Magnusson, Casper W. Berg, Anders Nielsen, Hans J. Skaug, Martin Mächler and Benjamin M. Bolker 378
Simulating Probabilistic Long-Term Effects in Models with Temporal Dependence
Christopher Gandrud and Laron K. Williams 401
RQGIS: Integrating R with QGIS for Statistical Geocomputing
Jannes Muenchow, Patrick Schratz and Alexander Brenning 409
Partial Rank Data with the hyper2 Package: Likelihood Functions for Generalized Bradley-Terry Models
Robin K. S. Hankin 429
riskRegression: Predicting the Risk of an Event using Cox Regression Models
Brice Ozenne, Anne Lyngholm Sørensen, Thomas Scheike, Christian Torp-Pedersen and Thomas Alexander Gerds 440
LeArEst: Length and Area Estimation from Data Measured with Additive Error
Mirta Benšić, Petar Taler, Safet Hamedović, Emmanuel Karlo Nyarko and Kristian Sabo 461
Splitting It Up: The spduration Split-Population Duration Regression Package for Time-Varying Covariates
Andreas Beger, Daniel W. Hill, Jr., Nils. W. Metternich, Shahryar Minhas and Michael D. Ward 474
Bayesian Regression Models for Interval-censored Data in R
Clifford Anderson-Bergman 487
openEBGM: An R Implementation of the Gamma-Poisson Shrinker Data Mining Model
Travis Canida and John Ihrie 499
rentrez: An R package for the NCBI eUtils API
David J. Winter 520
An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R
Carl Boettiger and Dirk Eddelbuettel 527
Conference Report: useR!2017
Tobias Verbeke 537
Conference Report: R in Insurance 2017
Nicolas Baradel, Christophe Dutang and Caroline Hillairet 539
Forwards Column
Stella Bollmann, Dianne Cook, Jasmine Dumas, John Fox, Julie Josse, Oliver Keyes, Carolin Strobl, Heather Turner and Rudolf Debelak 541
R Teaching Column
Matthias Gehrke, Reed Davis, Norman Matloff, Paul Thompson, Tiffany Chen, Emily Watkins and Laurel Beckett 553
R Foundation News
Torsten Hothorn 563
Changes on CRAN
Kurt Hornik, Uwe Ligges and Achim Zeileis 564
News from the Bioconductor Project
Bioconductor Core Team 567
Changes in R
R Core Team 568