Articles published in the Dec. 2013 issue
Editorial
Hadley Wickham 3
factorplot: Improving Presentation of Simple Contrasts in Generalized Linear Models
David A. Armstrong II 4
spMC: Modelling Spatial Random Fields with Continuous Lag Markov Chains
Luca Sartore 16
RNetCDF - A Package for Reading and Writing NetCDF Datasets
Pavel Michna and Milton Woods 29
Surface Melting Curve Analysis with R
Stefan Rödiger, Alexander Böhm and Ingolf Schimke 37
Performance Attribution for Equity Portfolios
Yang Lu and David Kane 53
ExactCIdiff: An R Package for Computing Exact Confidence Intervals for the Difference of Two Proportions
Guogen Shan and Weizhen Wang 62
rlme: An R Package for Rank-Based Estimation and Prediction in Random Effects Nested Models
Yusuf K. Bilgic and Herbert Susmann 71
Temporal Disaggregation of Time Series
Christoph Sax and Peter Steiner 80
Dynamic Parallelization of R Functions
Stefan Böhringer 88
CompLognormal: An R Package for Composite Lognormal Distributions
S. Nadarajah and S. A. A. Bakar 97
lfe: Linear Group Fixed Effects
Simen Gaure 104
The R in Robotics
André Dietrich, Sebastian Zug and Jörg Kaiser 117
On Sampling from the Multivariate t Distribution
Marius Hofert 129
betategarch: Simulation, Estimation and Forecasting of Beta-Skew-t-EGARCH Models
Genaro Sucarrat 137
Changes to grid for R 3.0.0
Paul Murrell 148
R Foundation News
Kurt Hornik 161
News from the Bioconductor Project
Bioconductor Team 162
Conference Report: Deuxièmes Rencontres R
Aurelie Siberchicot and Stephane Dray 164
Changes on CRAN
Kurt Hornik and Achim Zeileis 166
Changes in R
The R Core Team 192