The R Journal, Volume 8/1, August 2016

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Editorial PDF download
Michael Lawrence 4

Contributed Research Articles

metaplus: An R Package for the Analysis of Robust Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression PDF download
Ken J. Beath 5

Gender Prediction Methods Based on First Names with genderizeR PDF download
Kamil Wais 17

Conditional Fractional Gaussian Fields with the Package FieldSim PDF download
Alexandre Brouste, Jacques Istas and Sophie Lambert-Lacroix 38

rTableICC: An R Package for Random Generation of 22K and RC Contingency Tables PDF download
Haydar Demirhan 48

Maps, Coordinate Reference Systems and Visualising Geographic Data with mapmisc PDF download
Patrick E. Brown 64

Variable Clustering in High-Dimensional Linear Regression: The R Package clere PDF download
Loïc Yengo, Julien Jacques, Christophe Biernacki and Mickael Canouil 92

Stylometry with R: A Package for Computational Text Analysis PDF download
Maciej Eder, Jan Rybicki and Mike Kestemont 107

quickpsy: An R Package to Fit Psychometric Functions for Multiple Groups PDF download
Daniel Linares and Joan López-Moliner 122

FWDselect: An R Package for Variable Selection in Regression Models PDF download
Marta Sestelo, Nora M. Villanueva, Luis Meira-Machado and Javier Roca-Pardiñas 132

An Interactive Survey Application for Validating Social Network Analysis Techniques PDF download
Mitchell Joblin and Wolfgang Mauerer 149

Exploring Interaction Effects in Two-Factor Studies using the hiddenf Package in R. PDF download
Christopher T. Franck and Jason A. Osborne 159

Heteroscedastic Censored and Truncated Regression with crch PDF download
Jakob W. Messner, Georg J. Mayr and Achim Zeileis 173

Model Builder for Item Factor Analysis with OpenMx PDF download
Joshua N. Pritikin and Karen M. Schmidt 182

Spatio-Temporal Interpolation using gstat PDF download
Benedikt Gräler, Edzer Pebesma and Gerard Heuvelink 204

SWMPr: An R Package for Retrieving, Organizing, and Analyzing Environmental Data for Estuaries PDF download
Marcus W Beck 219

CryptRndTest: An R Package for Testing the Cryptographic Randomness PDF download
Haydar Demirhan and Nihan Bitirim 233

scmamp: Statistical Comparison of Multiple Algorithms in Multiple Problems PDF download
Borja Calvo and Guzmán Santafé 248

keyplayer: An R Package for Locating Key Players in Social Networks PDF download
Weihua An and Yu-Hsin Liu 257

SchemaOnRead: A Package for Schema-on-Read in R PDF download
Michael J. North 269

Crowdsourced Data Preprocessing with R and Amazon Mechanical Turk PDF download
Thomas J. Leeper 276

mclust 5: Clustering, Classification and Density Estimation Using Gaussian Finite Mixture Models PDF download
Luca Scrucca, Michael Fop, T. Brendan Murphy and Adrian E. Raftery 289

clustering.sc.dp: Optimal Clustering with Sequential Constraint by Using Dynamic Programming PDF download
Tibor Szkaliczki 318

progenyClust: an R package for Progeny Clustering PDF download
Chenyue W. Hu and Amina A. Qutub 328

statmod: Probability Calculations for the Inverse Gaussian Distribution PDF download
Göknur Giner and Gordon K. Smyth 339

Using DECIPHER v2.0 to Analyze Big Biological Sequence Data in R PDF download
Erik S. Wright 352

R Packages to Aid in Handling Web Access Logs PDF download
Oliver Keyes, Bob Rudis and Jay Jacobs 360

Nonparametric Tests for the Interaction in Two-way Factorial Designs Using R PDF download
Jos Feys 367

GMDH: An R Package for Short Term Forecasting via GMDH-Type Neural Network Algorithms PDF download
Osman Dag and Ceylan Yozgatligil 379

sbtools: A Package Connecting R to Cloud-based Data for Collaborative Online Research PDF download
Luke A Winslow, Scott Chamberlain, Alison P Appling and Jordan S Read 387

News and Notes

Conference Report: useR! 2016 PDF download
Joe Rickert 399

Changes on CRAN PDF download
Kurt Hornik and Achim Zeileis 402

News from the Bioconductor Project PDF download
The Bioconductor Team 404

Changes in R PDF download
The R Core Team 406