Changes on CRAN

The ‘Changes on CRAN’ article from the 2016-2 issue.

Kurt Hornik (

WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria

) , Achim Zeileis (

Universität Innsbruck, Austria

)
2016-12-01

1 CRAN growth

In the past 6 months, 1169 new packages were added to the CRAN package repository. 18 packages were unarchived and 36 archived. The following shows the growth of the number of active packages in the CRAN package repository:

cran growth

Around 2017-01-27, the number of active packages went above 10000!

2 New CRAN task views

ExtremeValue

Topic: Extreme Value Analysis. Maintainer: Christophe Dutang, Kevin Jaunatre. Packages: QRM, RTDE, ReIns, SpatialExtremes, VGAM, copula, evd\(^*\), evdbayes, evir\(^*\), extRemes, extremeStat, extremefit, fExtremes, ismev, lmom, lmomRFA, lmomco, mev, texmex.

(* = core package)

3 New packages in CRAN task views

Bayesian

BAS, Boom, BoomSpikeSlab, LaplacesDemon, abn, bayesImageS, bayesmeta, bsts, nimble.

ChemPhys

enpls, wccsom.

ClinicalTrials

ThreeGroups.

Cluster

ADPclust, CEC, bmixture, clustMixType, edci, largeVis.

DifferentialEquations

Sim.DiffProc.

Distributions

Compositional, QRM, ReIns, bmixture.

Econometrics

ExtremeBounds, clubSandwich, clusterSEs, decompr, gvc, pwt9, rdd, rddtools, rdrobust.

ExperimentalDesign

BOIN, BayesMAMS, CombinS, GroupSeq, ICAOD, JMdesign, OBsMD, OptimaRegion, OptimalDesign, PGM2, PwrGSD, RPPairwiseDesign, SLHD, ThreeArmedTrials, VNM, acebayes, binseqtest, choiceDes, crmPack, designGLMM, designmatch, desplot, dfcomb, dfcrm, dfmta, dfpk, docopulae, dynaTree, easypower, ez, gset, hiPOD, ibd, minimaxdesign, optDesignSlopeInt, ph2bayes, ph2bye, pid, powerAnalysis, powerGWASinteraction, powerbydesign, qualityTools, seqDesign, ssize.fdr, ssizeRNA, vdg.

Finance

Dowd, FinancialMath, GetHFData, GetTDData, InfoTrad, MSGARCH, NetworkRiskMeasures, PortfolioEffectHFT, QuantTools, factorstochvol, fmdates, pinbasic, ragtop, sharpeRratio, tidyquant.

HighPerformanceComputing

batchtools, pbapply, permGPU.

MachineLearning

biglasso, gmum.r, rnn, spa.

MedicalImaging

Morpho\(^*\), RNifti\(^*\), Rvcg\(^*\), adaptsmoFMRI, bayesImageS, divest\(^*\), edfReader\(^*\), eegkit\(^*\).

MetaAnalysis

MetaAnalyser, MetaIntegrator, esc, metaplotr.

NaturalLanguageProcessing

PGRdup, gutenbergr, hunspell, monkeylearn, mscstexta4r, mscsweblm4r, phonics, quanteda, tesseract, text2vec, tidytext, tokenizers.

NumericalMathematics

RSpectra, rmumps, schumaker.

OfficialStatistics

BIFIEsurvey, CalibrateSSB, Frames2, GeomComb, MBHdesign, PracTools, RRTCS, RcmdrPlugin.sampling, gridsample, mapStats, panelaggregation, quantification, rpms, rspa, samplesize4surveys, srvyr, surveybootstrap, surveydata, surveyoutliers, svyPVpack.

Phylogenetics

outbreaker, phyext2, phyloTop, rmetasim, rotl.

Psychometrics

BayesFM, BayesLCA, BigSEM, CAvariants, ClustVarLV, DistatisR, GDINA, IRTpp, LNIRT, LVMMCOR, LatentREGpp, MCAvariants, MLCIRTwithin, SEMID, SOD, SparseFactorAnalysis, TestDataImputation, aspect, cIRT, cabootcrs, cds, cncaGUI, cocor, covLCA, ctsem, dlsem, edstan, elasticnet, emIRT, esaBcv, faoutlier, fourPNO, gSEM, gtheory, immer, influence.SEM, irtDemo, lba, lcda, lsl, ltbayes, nsprcomp, optiscale, paran, piecewiseSEM, plotSEMM, regsem, rsem, semGOF, semdiag, semtree, smds, soc.ca, sparseSEM, subscore, superMDS, xxIRT.

SocialSciences

optmatch.

Spatial

ExceedanceTools, RQGIS, dggridR\(^*\), gear, geojson, geojsonio, ggsn, postGIStools, rgbif, rpostgis, sf\(^*\), smacpod, smerc, spacom, spselect.

SpatioTemporal

CARBayesST, GeoLight, SimilarityMeasures.

Survival

AHR, APtools, AdapEnetClass, BayesPiecewiseICAR, Biograph, CFC, Coxnet, Cyclops, ELYP, FamEvent, GORCure, GSSE, ICBayes, ICGOR, InformativeCensoring, JointModel, LTRCtrees, LexisPlotR, PenCoxFrail, SSRMST, SimHaz, SimSCRPiecewise, SurvCorr, SurvLong, SurvRank, SurvRegCensCov, TP.idm, TransModel, addhazard, asaur, bnnSurvival, cmprskQR, compareC, condSURV, controlTest, coxsei, crrp, crskdiag, discSurv, emplik2, fastpseudo, flexPM, flexrsurv, frailtySurv, gcerisk, glmnet, gte, hdnom, icRSF, icenReg, imputeYn, intercure, isoph, jackknifeKME, joint.Cox, landest, mexhaz, miCoPTCM, msmtools, npsurv, pch, plac, popEpi, ranger, reReg, reda, rstpm2, smcure, survMisc, survRM2, survminer, tdROC, thregI, tranSurv, uniah.

TimeSeries

BETS, BigVAR, GAS, GeomComb, InspectChangepoint, Tcomp, WaveletComp, cointReg, dCovTS, dynr, ecm, factorstochvol, forecastHybrid, gdpc, ggseas, mclcar, onlineCPD, opera, pcdpca, pdc, robets, roll, rucrdtw, scoringRules, seasonalview, smooth, sparsevar, spectral, stR, thief, tsdisagg2, tswge, uroot, x13binary.

WebTechnologies

ROpenFIGI, RSmartlyIO, RStripe, anametrix, dataone, datarobot, europepmc, fiery, geoparser, googleAnalyticsR, googleCloudStorageR, htmltab, jqr, jsonvalidate, mscstexta4r, mscsweblm4r, nomadlist, openadds, opencage, osi, osmplotr, placement, plumber, rgeospatialquality, rosetteApi, uaparserjs.

(* = core package)

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Hornik & Zeileis, "Changes on CRAN", The R Journal, 2016

BibTeX citation

@article{RJ-2016-2-cran,
  author = {Hornik, Kurt and Zeileis, Achim},
  title = {Changes on CRAN},
  journal = {The R Journal},
  year = {2016},
  note = {https://rjournal.github.io/},
  volume = {8},
  issue = {2},
  issn = {2073-4859},
  pages = {507-509}
}