Editorial

Simon Urbanek

On behalf of the editorial board, I am pleased to present Volume 15 Issue 3 of the R Journal.

We would like to welcome Emi Tanaka to our executive editorial board. Emi has served as an Associate Editor for the last two years and kindly agreed to take the role of an Executive Editor. In addition, we would like to also welcome Ursula Laa, Yanfei Kang and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan to our Associate Editors team.

The articles in this issue have been carefully copy edited by Adam Bartonicek and Chase Robertson.

In this issue

News from CRAN, the R Foundation and Bioconductor are included in this issue as well as a report on the R Project Sprint 2023.

This issue features 14 contributed research articles the majority of which relate to R packages on a diverse range of topics. All packages are available on CRAN. Supplementary material with fully reproducible code is available for download from the Journal website. Topics covered in this issue are

Graphics and visualization

Coloring in R’s Blind Spot
Updates to the R Graphics Engine: One Person’s Chart Junk is Another’s Chart Treasure
C443: An R Package to See a Forest for the Trees
GREENeR: An R Package to Estimate and Visualize Nutrients Pressures on Surface Waters

Bayesian inference

SSNbayes: An R Package for Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Modelling on Stream Networks
The R Package rater
bayesassurance: An R Package for Calculating Sample Size and Bayesian Assurance
Bayesian Inference for Multivariate Spatial Models with INLA

Multivariate statistics

fasano.franceschini.test: An Implementation of a Multivariate KS Test in R
TwoSampleTest.HD: An R Package for the Two-Sample Problem with High-Dimensional Data
fnets: An R Package for Network Estimation and Forecasting via Factor-Adjusted VAR Modelling

Other

Variety and Mainstays of the R Developer Community
Two-stage Sampling Design and Sample Selection with the R Package R2BEAT
mathml: Translate R Expressions to MathML and LaTeX

0.1 CRAN packages used

C443, GREENeR, SSNbayes, rater, bayesassurance, fasano.franceschini.test, TwoSampleTest.HD, fnets, R2BEAT, mathml

0.2 CRAN Task Views implied by cited packages

OfficialStatistics, TimeSeries

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Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Urbanek, "Editorial", The R Journal, 2023

BibTeX citation

@article{RJ-2023-3-editorial,
  author = {Urbanek, Simon},
  title = {Editorial},
  journal = {The R Journal},
  year = {2023},
  note = {https://journal.r-project.org/news/RJ-2023-3-editorial},
  volume = {15},
  issue = {3},
  issn = {2073-4859},
  pages = {3-4}
}