The R Journal (December 2020) 12(2): Complete Issue

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The R Foundation

Date of this Version

12-2020

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Article

Citation

The R Journal (December 2020) 12(2); Editor: Michael J. Kane

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Copyright 2020, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 4.0 International

Abstract

Editorial, Michael J. Kane

Contributed Research Articles

The biglasso Package: A Memory- and Computation-Efficient Solver for Lasso Model Fitting with Big Data in R, Yaohui Zeng and Patrick Breheny

Comparing Multiple Survival Functions with Crossing Hazards in R, Hsin-wen Chang, Pei-Yuan Tsai, Jen-Tse Kao, and Guo-You Lan

A Unified Algorithm for the Non-Convex Penalized Estimation: The ncpen Package, Dongshin Kim, Sangin Lee, and Sunghoon Kwon

TULIP: A Toolbox for Linear Discriminant Analysis with Penalties, Yuqing Pan, Qing Mai, and Xin Zhang

fitzRoy: An R Package to Encourage Reproducible Sports Analysis, Robert Nguyen, James Day, David Warton, and Oscar Lane

Assembling Pharmacometric Datasets in R: The Puzzle Package, Mario González-Sales, Olivier Barrière, Pierre Olivier Tremblay, Guillaume Bonnefois, Julie Desrochers, and Fahima Nekka

RNGforGPD: An R Package for Generation of Univariate and Multivariate Generalized Poisson Data, Hesen Li, Hakan Demirtas, and Ruizhe Chen

Testing the Equality of Normal Distributed and Independent Groups’ Means under Unequal Variances by doex Package, Mustafa Cavus and Berna Yazıcı

Six Years of Shiny in Research: Collaborative Development of Web Tools in R, Peter Kasprzak, Lachlan Mitchell, Olena Kravchuk, and Andy Timmins

A Fast and Scalable Implementation Method for Competing Risks Data with the R Package fastcmprsk, Eric S. Kawaguchi, Jenny I. Shen, Gang Li, and Marc A. Suchard

ordinalClust: An R Package to Analyze Ordinal Data, Margot Selosse, Julien Jacques, and Christophe Biernacki

KSPM: A Package for Kernel Semi-Parametric Models, Catherine Schramm, Sébastien Jacquemont, Karim Oualkacha, Aurélie Labbe, and Celia M.T. Greenwood

AQuadtree: An R Package for Quadtree Anonymization of Point Data, Raymond Lagonigro, Ramon Oller, and Joan Carles Martori

miWQS: Multiple Imputation Using Weighted Quantile Sum Regression, Paul M. Hargarten and David C. Wheeler

Kuhn-Tucker and Multiple Discrete-Continuous Extreme Value Model Estimation and Simulation in R: The rmdcev Package, Patrick Lloyd-Smith

NTS: An R Package for Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, Xialu Liu, Rong Chen, and Ruey Tsay

Species Distribution Modeling using Spatial Point Processes: A Case Study of Sloth Occurrence in Costa Rica, Paula Moraga

A Graphical EDA Tool with ggplot2: brinton, Pere Millán-Martínez and Ramon Oller

MoTBFs: An R Package for Learning Hybrid Bayesian Networks Using Mixtures of Truncated Basis Functions, Inmaculada Pérez-Bernabé, Ana D. Maldonado, Antonio Salmerón, and Thomas D. Nielsen

Analyzing Basket Trials under Multisource Exchangeability Assumptions, Michael J. Kane, Nan Chen, Alexander M. Kaizer, Xun Jiang, H. Amy Xia, and Brian P. Hobbs

OpenLand: Software for Quantitative Analysis and Visualization of Land Use and Cover Change, Reginal Exavier and Peter Zeilhofer

FarmTest: An R Package for Factor-Adjusted Robust Multiple Testing, Koushiki Bose, Jianqing Fan, Yuan Ke, Xiaoou Pan, and Wen-Xin Zhou

User-Specified General-to-Specific and Indicator Saturation Methods, Genaro Sucarrat

News and Notes

Changes in R 3.6–4.0, Tomas Kalibera, Sebastian Meyer and Kurt Hornik

Changes on CRAN, Kurt Hornik, Uwe Ligges and Achim Zeileis

News from the Bioconductor Project, Bioconductor Core Team

News from the Forwards Taskforce, Heather Turner

R Foundation News, Torsten Hothorn

e-Rum2020: How We Turned a Physical Conference into a Successful Virtual Event, Mariachiara Fortuna, Francesca Vitalini, Mirko Signorelli, Emanuela Furfaro, Federico Marini, Gert Janssenswillen, Riccardo Porreca, Riccardo L. Rossi, Andrea Guzzo, Roberta Sirovich, Andrea Melloncelli, Lorenzo Salvi, Serena Signorelli, and Filippo Chiarello