Articles published in the June 2021 issue
Editorial
Dianne Cook 4
SEEDCCA: An Integrated R-Package for Canonical Correlation Analysis and Partial Least Squares
Bo-Young Kim, Researcher, Yunju Im, Postdoctoral Associate and Jae Keun Yoo, Professor 7
npcure: An R Package for Nonparametric Inference in Mixture Cure Models
Ana López-Cheda, M. Amalia Jácome and Ignacio López-de-Ullibarri 21
A Method for Deriving Information from Running R Code
Mark P.J. van der Loo 42
penPHcure: Variable Selection in Proportional Hazards Cure Model with Time-Varying Covariates
Alessandro Beretta and Cédric Heuchenne 53
JMcmprsk: An R Package for Joint Modelling of Longitudinal and Survival Data with Competing Risks
Hong Wang, Ning Li, Shanpeng Li and Gang Li* 67
exPrior: An R Package for the Formulation of Ex-Situ Priors
Falk Heße, Karina Cucchi, Nura Kawa and Yoram Rubin 83
Wide-to-tall Data Reshaping Using Regular Expressions and the nc Package
Toby Dylan Hocking 98
Unidimensional and Multidimensional Methods for Recurrence Quantification Analysis with crqa
Moreno I. Coco, Dan Mønster, Giuseppe Leonardi, Rick Dale and Sebastian Wallot 112
The bdpar Package: Big Data Pipelining Architecture for R
Miguel Ferreiro-Díaz, Tomás R. Cotos-Yáñez, José R. Méndez and David Ruano-Ordás 131
Linear Regression with Stationary Errors: the R Package slm
Emmanuel Caron, Jérôme Dedecker and Bertrand Michel 146
clustcurv: An R Package for Determining Groups in Multiple Curves
Nora M. Villanueva, Marta Sestelo, Luís Meira-Machado and Javier Roca-Pardiñas 164
Benchmarking R packages for Calculation of Persistent Homology
Eashwar V. Somasundaram, Shael E. Brown, Adam Litzler, Jacob G. Scott and Raoul R. Wadhwa 184
Statistical Quality Control with the qcr Package
Miguel Flores, Rubén Fernández-Casal, Salvador Naya and Javier Tarrío-Saavedra 194
pdynmc: A Package for Estimating Linear Dynamic Panel Data Models Based on Nonlinear Moment Conditions
Markus Fritsch, Andrew Adrian Yu Pua and Joachim Schnurbus 218
DChaos: An R Package for Chaotic Time Series Analysis
Julio E. Sandubete and Lorenzo Escot 232
IndexNumber: An R Package for Measuring the Evolution of Magnitudes
Alejandro Saavedra-Nieves and Paula Saavedra-Nieves 253
ROBustness In Network (robin): an R Package for Comparison and Validation of Communities
Valeria Policastro (package author and creator), Dario Righelli, Annamaria Carissimo, Luisa Cutillo and Italia De Feis 276
Finding Optimal Normalizing Transformations via bestNormalize
Ryan A. Peterson 294
Package wsbackfit for Smooth Backfitting Estimation of Generalized Structured Models
Javier Roca-Pardiñas, María Xosé Rodríguez-Álvarez and Stefan Sperlich 314
garchx: Flexible and Robust GARCH-X Modeling
Genaro Sucarrat 335
RLumCarlo: Simulating Cold Light using Monte Carlo Methods
Sebastian Kreutzer, Johannes Friedrich, Vasilis Pagonis, Christian Laag, Ena Rajovic and Christoph Schmidt 351
The R Package smicd: Statistical Methods for Interval-Censored Data
Paul Walter 366
OneStep : Le Cam’s One-step Estimation Procedure
Alexandre Brouste, Christophe Dutang and Darel Noutsa Mieniedou 383
The HBV.IANIGLA Hydrological Model
Ezequiel Toum, Mariano H. Masiokas, Ricardo Villalba, Pierre Pitte and Lucas Ruiz 395
krippendorffsalpha: An R Package for Measuring Agreement Using Krippendorff’s Alpha Coefficient
John Hughes 413
Working with CRSP/COMPUSTAT in R: Reproducible Empirical Asset Pricing
Majeed Simaan 426
Analyzing Dependence between Point Processes in Time Using IndTestPP
Ana C. Cebrián and Jesús Asín 444
Conversations in Time: Interactive Visualization to Explore Structured Temporal Data
Earo Wang and Dianne Cook 461
distr6: R6 Object-Oriented Probability Distributions Interface in R
Raphael Sonabend and Franz J. Király 470
gofCopula: Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Copulae
Ostap Okhrin, Simon Trimborn and Martin Waltz 493
ROCnReg: An R Package for Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve Inference With and Without Covariates
María Xosé Rodríguez-Álvarez and Vanda Inácio 525
Automating Reproducible, Collaborative Clinical Trial Document Generation with the listdown Package
Michael Kane, Xun Jiang and Simon Urbanek 556
Towards a Grammar for Processing Clinical Trial Data
Michael J. Kane 563
Reproducible Summary Tables with the gtsummary Package
Daniel D. Sjoberg, Karissa Whiting, Michael Curry, Jessica A. Lavery and Joseph Larmarange 570
Regularized Transformation Models: The tramnet Package
Lucas Kook, Torsten Hothorn 581
BayesSPsurv: An R Package to Estimate Bayesian (Spatial) Split-Population Survival Models
Brandon Bolte, Nicolás Schmidt, Sergio Béjar, Nguyen Huynh and Bumba Mukherjee 595
stratamatch: Prognostic Score Stratification Using a Pilot Design
Rachael C. Aikens, Joseph Rigdon, Justin Lee, Michael Baiocchi, Andrew B. Goldstone, Peter Chiu, Y. Joseph Woo and Jonathan H. Chen 614
News from the Bioconductor Project
Bioconductor Core Team 631
Changes on CRAN
Kurt Hornik, Uwe Ligges and Achim Zeileis 633
News from the Forwards Taskforce
Heather Turner 636
Changes in R 4.0–4.1
Tomas Kalibera, Sebastian Meyer and Kurt Hornik 638
R Foundation News
Torsten Hothorn 641
R Medicine 2020: The Power of Going Virtual
Elizabeth J. Atkinson, Peter D. Higgins, Denise Esserman, Michael J. Kane, Steven J. Schwager, Joseph B. Rickert, Daniella Mark, Mara Alexeev and Stephan Kadauke 642
Conference Report of Why R? Turkey 2021
Mustafa Cavus, Olgun Aydın, Ozan Evkaya, Ozancan Ozdemir, Deniz Bezer and Ugur Dar 648