[R] CRAN (and crantastic) updates this week

Mon Apr 23 00:40:05 CEST 2012

CRAN (and crantastic) updates this week

New packages
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* appell (0.0-3)
  Maintainer: Daniel Sabanes Bove
  Author(s): Daniel Sabanes Bove <daniel.sabanesbove at ifspm.uzh.ch> with
             contributions by F. D. Colavecchia, R. C. Forrey, G.
             Gasaneo, N. L. J. Michel, L. F.  Shampine, M. V. Stoitsov
             and H. A. Watts.
  License: GPL (>= 3)
  http://crantastic.org/packages/appell

  This package wraps Fortran code by F. D. Colavecchia and G. Gasaneo
  for computing the Appell's F1 hypergeometric function. Their program
  uses Fortran code by L. F. Shampine and H. A. Watts. Moreover, the
  hypergeometric function with complex arguments is computed with
  Fortran code by N. L. J. Michel and M. V. Stoitsov or with Fortran
  code by R. C.  Forrey. See the function documentations for the
  references and please cite them accordingly.

* bayesPop (0.2-2)
  Maintainer: Hana Sevcikova
  Author(s): Hana Sevcikova, Adrian Raftery
  License: GPL (>= 2)
  http://crantastic.org/packages/bayesPop

  The package allows to generate population projections for all
  countries of the world using several probabilistic components, such
  as total fertility rate (TFR) and life expectancy.

* cec2005benchmark (1.0.0)
  Maintainer: Yasser González-Fernández
  Author(s): Yasser González-Fernández <ygonzalezfernandez at gmail.com> and Marta
             Soto <mrosa at icimaf.cu>
  License: GPL (>= 3)
  http://crantastic.org/packages/cec2005benchmark

  This package is a wrapper for the C implementation of the 25 benchmark
  functions for the CEC 2005 Special Session on Real-Parameter
  Optimization. The original C code by Santosh Tiwari and related
  documentation are available at http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/EPNSugan/.

* compound.Cox (1.0)
  Maintainer: Takeshi Emura, Graduate Institute of Statistics, National Central University, Taiwan
  Author(s): Takeshi Emura & Yi-Hau Chen
  License: GPL-2
  http://crantastic.org/packages/compound-Cox

  Calculate regression coefficients and their standard errors under the
  Cox proportional hazard model with the large number of covariates.

* dgmb (1.0)
  Maintainer: Alba Martinez-Ruiz
  Author(s): Alba Martinez-Ruiz <amartine at ucsc.cl> and Claudia Martinez-Araneda
             <cmartinez at ucsc.cl>
  License: GPL (>= 2)
  http://crantastic.org/packages/dgmb

  Random data generation for PLS structural models.

* diffEq (1.0)
  Maintainer: Karline Soetaert
  Author(s): Karline Soetaert <karline.soetaert at nioz.nl>
  License: GPL
  http://crantastic.org/packages/diffEq

  Functions and examples from the book Solving Differential Equations in
  R by Karline Soetaert, Jeff R Cash and Francesca Mazzia.  Springer,
  2012.

* dkDNA (0.1.0)
  Maintainer: Gota Morota
  Author(s): Gota Morota and Masanori Koyama
  License: GPL-2
  http://crantastic.org/packages/dkDNA

  Compute diffusion kernels on DNA polymorphisms, including SNP and
  bi-allelic genotypes.

* frmqa (0.1-0)
  Maintainer: Thanh T. Tran
  Author(s): Thanh T. Tran
  License: GPL (>= 2)
  http://crantastic.org/packages/frmqa

  R and C++ functions for financial risk management and quantative
  analysis, using the generalized perbolic and its related
  distributions.

* geospt (0.4-9)
  Maintainer: Alí Santacruz
  Author(s): Carlos Melo <cmelo at udistrital.edu.co>, Alí Santacruz, Oscar Melo
             <oomelom at unal.edu.co> and others
  License: GPL (>= 2)
  http://crantastic.org/packages/geospt

  This package contains functions for: estimation of the variogram
  through trimmed mean, radial basis functions (optimization,
  prediction and cross-validation), summary statistics from
  cross-validation, pocket plot, and design of optimal sampling
  networks through sequential and simultaneous points methods

* JohnsonDistribution (0.24)
  Maintainer: A.I. McLeod
  Author(s): A.I. McLeod and Leanna King
  License: GPL (>= 2)
  http://crantastic.org/packages/JohnsonDistribution

  Johnson curve distributions.  Implementation of AS100 and AS99.

* labeledLoop (0.1)
  Maintainer: Kohske Takahashi
  Author(s): Kohske Takahashi
  License: MIT
  http://crantastic.org/packages/labeledLoop

  Support labeled loop and escape from nested loop

* logitnorm (0.8.26)
  Maintainer: Thomas Wutzler
  Author(s): Thomas Wutzler
  License: GPL-2
  http://crantastic.org/packages/logitnorm

  Density, distribution, quantile and random generation function for the
  logitnormal distribution. Estimation of the mode and the first two
  moments. Estimation of distribution parameters.

* LOST (1.0)
  Maintainer: Jessica Arbour
  Author(s): J. Arbour and C. Brown
  License: GPL (>= 2)
  http://crantastic.org/packages/LOST

  LOST includes functions for simulating missing morphometric data
  randomly, with taxonomic bias and with anatomical bias. This package
  also includes functions for estimating missing morphometric data
  based on regression.

* NHPoisson (1.0)
  Maintainer: Ana C. Cebrian
  Author(s): Ana C. Cebrian
  License: GPL (>= 2)
  http://crantastic.org/packages/NHPoisson

  Tools for modelling, ML estimation, validation analysis and simulation
  of non homogeneous Poisson processes in time.

* pacose (1.0)
  Maintainer: Vincent Guillemot
  Author(s): Vincent Guillemot, Andreas Bender
  License: GPL
  http://crantastic.org/packages/pacose

  Implementation of iPACOSE, PACOSE and of various methods for the
  estimation of covariance/precision matrices under the constraint
  that some partial correlation coefficients are equal to zero.

* pcaL1 (1.0)
  Maintainer: Paul Brooks
  Author(s): Sapan Jot <sapan.madaan at gmail.com> and Paul Brooks <jpbrooks at vcu.edu>.
             The scripts configure and configure.ac and the file
             INSTALL are based on those in R package clpAPI
             <geliudie at uni-duesseldorf.de>.
  License: GPL (>= 2)
  http://crantastic.org/packages/pcaL1

  This package contains three implementations of principal component
  analysis methods using the L1 norm.  The package depends on COIN-OR
  Clp version >= 1.12.0.  The methods implemented are PCA-L1 (Kwak
  2008), L1-PCA (Ke and Kanade 2003, 2005), and L1-PCA* (Brooks, Dula,
  and Boone 2012).

* sft (0.0-4)
  Maintainer: Joe Houpt
  Author(s): Joe Houpt <jhoupt at indiana.edu>, Leslie Blaha
             <Leslie.Blaha at wpafb.af.mil>
  License: GPL (>= 2)
  http://crantastic.org/packages/sft

  This package contains a series of tools for analyzing Systems
  Factorial Technology data.  This includes functions for plotting and
  statistically testing capacity coefficient functions and survivor
  interaction contrast functions.

* stpp (0.1)
  Maintainer: Edith Gabriel
  Author(s): Edith Gabriel
  License: GPL-3
  http://crantastic.org/packages/stpp

  A package for analysing, simulating and displaying space-time point
  patterns

* TestSurvRec (1.01)
  Maintainer: Carlos Martinez
  Author(s): Dr. Carlos Martinez
  License: GPL-2
  http://crantastic.org/packages/TestSurvRec

  These tests are weighted tests type logrank

* VarEff (1.0)
  Maintainer: Natacha Nikolic
  Author(s): Natacha Nikolic and Claude Chevalet
  License: GPL (>= 2)
  http://crantastic.org/packages/VarEff

  Functions for estimate the changes of effective population size with
  coalescent approach.

* vec2dtransf (1.0)
  Maintainer: German Carrillo
  Author(s): German Carrillo
  License: GPL (>= 2)
  http://crantastic.org/packages/vec2dtransf

  A package for applying affine and similarity transformations on vector
  spatial data (sp objects). Transformations can be defined from
  control points or directly from parameters. If redundant control
  points are provided Least Squares is applied allowing to obtain
  residuals and RMSE.

Updated packages
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abn (0.7), afmtools (0.1.7), ANN (0.1.4), bayesDem (1.5-1), bayesLife
(0.3-3), bclust (1.3), bcp (3.0.1), blighty (3.1-4), bootRes (1.2.1),
cccd (1.01), clpAPI (1.2.1), comparison (0.4-0), crs (0.15-15),
dcemriS4 (0.47), ddepn (2.1), deldir (0.0-18), diptest (0.75-3),
disclapmix (0.2), dlmap (1.12), dlnm (1.6.1), dlnm (1.6.2), doMC
(1.2.5), doParallel (1.0.1), doRNG (1.2.6), doSNOW (1.0.6), flux
(0.2-1), fOptions (2160.81), foreach (1.4.0), gdsfmt (0.9.8),
GeneCycle (1.1.2), geometry (0.3-0), GGally (0.3.2), glpkAPI (1.2.3),
gmodels (2.15.2), GWAF (2.0), GWAtoolbox (2.0.2), HAC (0.2-0), hash
(2.1.0.2), hdlm (1.1.1), iterators (1.0.6), kaps (0.9-2), lcmm
(1.5.2), LeLogicielR (1.2), lgcp (0.9-4), limSolve (1.5.3), lmomco
(1.5.1), MCMCpack (1.2-3), MDM (1.1), mediation (4.0.1), meta (2.0-2),
monomvn (1.8-10), MPTinR (0.8.10), mritc (0.4-0), msSurv (1.1-0),
mvoutlier (1.9.7), nlsmsn (0.0-3), oblique.tree (1.1), oro.nifti
(0.3.3), OUwie (1.18), pracma (1.0.5), qgraph (1.0.3), qualityTools
(1.52), RcppArmadillo (0.3.0.2), ReadImages (0.1.3.2), rgrs (0.2-17),
RHRV (2.6), robfilter (3.1), RVAideMemoire (0.9-9), RXKCD (1.7-2),
saws (0.9-5.3), segmented (0.2-9.0), SPACECAP (1.0.5), spatstat
(1.26-1), sprint (1.0.1), sybil (1.0.2), tempdisagg (0.13), tgp
(2.4-7), timereg (1.6-3), tis (1.22), topicmodels (0.1-5), trio
(1.4.26), xlsxjars (0.4.0), xpose4 (4.3.5), xpose4classic (4.3.5),
xpose4data (4.3.5), xpose4generic (4.3.5), xpose4specific (4.3.5), zic
(0.7.0)

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