Articles published in the Dec. 2020 issue
Editorial
Michael J. Kane 4
The biglasso Package: A Memory- and Computation-Efficient Solver for Lasso Model Fitting with Big Data in R
Yaohui Zeng and Patrick Breheny 6
Comparing Multiple Survival Functions with Crossing Hazards in R
Hsin-wen Chang, Pei-Yuan Tsai, Jen-Tse Kao and Guo-You Lan 20
A Unified Algorithm for the Non-Convex Penalized Estimation: The ncpen Package
Dongshin Kim, Sangin Lee and Sunghoon Kwon 43
TULIP: A Toolbox for Linear Discriminant Analysis with Penalties
Yuqing Pan, Qing Mai and Xin Zhang 61
fitzRoy - An R Package to Encourage Reproducible Sports Analysis
Robert Nguyen, James Day, David Warton and Oscar Lane 82
Assembling Pharmacometric Datasets in R - The puzzle Package
Mario González-Sales, Olivier Barrière, Pierre Olivier Tremblay, Guillaume Bonnefois, Julie Desrochers and Fahima Nekka 107
RNGforGPD: An R Package for Generation of Univariate and Multivariate Generalized Poisson Data
Hesen Li, Hakan Demirtas and Ruizhe Chen 120
Testing the equality of normal distributed and independent groups’ means under unequal variances by doex package
Mustafa Cavus and Berna Yazıcı 134
Six Years of Shiny in Research - Collaborative Development of Web Tools in R
Peter Kasprzak, Lachlan Mitchell, Olena Kravchuk and Andy Timmins 155
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 163
ordinalClust: An R Package to Analyze Ordinal Data
Margot Selosse, Julien Jacques and Christophe Biernacki 173
KSPM: A Package For Kernel Semi-Parametric Models
Catherine Schramm, Sébastien Jacquemont, Karim Oualkacha, Aurélie Labbe and Celia M.T. Greenwood 189
AQuadtree: an R Package for Quadtree Anonymization of Point Data
Raymond Lagonigro, Ramon Oller and Joan Carles Martori 209
miWQS: Multiple Imputation Using Weighted Quantile Sum Regression
Paul M. Hargarten and David C. Wheeler 226
Kuhn-Tucker and Multiple Discrete-Continuous Extreme Value Model Estimation and Simulation in R: The rmdcev Package
Patrick Lloyd-Smith 251
NTS: An R Package for Nonlinear Time Series Analysis
Xialu Liu, Rong Chen and Ruey Tsay 266
Species Distribution Modeling using Spatial Point Processes: a Case Study of Sloth Occurrence in Costa Rica
Paula Moraga 293
A Graphical EDA Tool with ggplot2: brinton
Pere Millán-Martínez and Ramon Oller 311
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 321
Analyzing Basket Trials under Multisource Exchangeability Assumptions
Michael J. Kane, Nan Chen, Alexander M. Kaizer, Xun Jiang, H. Amy Xia and Brian P. Hobbs 342
OpenLand: Software for Quantitative Analysis and Visualization of Land Use and Cover Change
Reginal Exavier and Peter Zeilhofer 359
FarmTest: An R Package for Factor-Adjusted Robust Multiple Testing
Koushiki Bose, Jianqing Fan, Yuan Ke, Xiaoou Pan and Wen-Xin Zhou 372
User-Specified General-to-Specific and Indicator Saturation Methods
Genaro Sucarrat 388
Changes in R 3.6–4.0
Tomas Kalibera, Sebastian Meyer and Kurt Hornik 402
Changes on CRAN
Kurt Hornik, Uwe Ligges and Achim Zeileis 407
News from the Bioconductor Project
Bioconductor Core Team 410
News from the Forwards Taskforce
Heather Turner 411
R Foundation News
Torsten Hothorn 413
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 and Andrea 416