Packages PackagesR is a highly extensible statistical programming and graphics language. R's power comes from user-contributed extensions, called packages. Packages can be uploaded to a central repository, such as CRAN, Bioconductor, or Omegahat. However, many excellent packages live out their lives in more informal code repositories such as GitHub, or even just on a single user's computer.
Packages can be peer-reviewed through many processes, such as submitting companion articles to journals like the Journal of Open Source Software or the Journal of Statistical Software. Packages can also be peer-reviewed through the rOpenSci project. I am an rOpenSci reviewer.
Here is a list of R packages that I have created or contributed to. Click on the package name to be brought to the package website.
data.frameContributor
Parse a BibTeX file to a data.frame to make it accessible for further analysis and visualization.
Author, Creator
A small package that will calculate a cyclist's Eddington number.
You might also like to try the online calculator, which uses client-side javascript.
Contributor
Tools for exploring data from the MLA International Bibliography exported to RIS format.
Author
Create a random monster name in the style of Diablo II.
Author, Creator
Provides random matrices with a defined covariance structure. The package began as an exercise to show performance improvements of using vectorized R code rather than explicit for loops. Later, it became a vehicle for working with the Rcpp and RcppArmadillo packages and learning how to incorporate them into packages of my own. Future work may include FORTRAN code to further explore the capabilities of using compiled code in R scripts and packages.
You can see an exploration the thought process just described in the package vignette. Different methods for function definitions are used and performance is assessed.
Reviewer, Contributor
nomisr is for accessing Access UK official statistics from the Nomis database through R. Nomis contains data from the Census, the Labour Force Survey, DWP benefit statistics and other economic and demographic data, and is maintained on behalf of the Office for National Statistics by the University of Durham.
The nomisr package provides functions to find what data is available, the variables and query options for different datasets and a function for downloading data. nomisr returns data in tibble format. Most of the data available through nomisr is based around statistical geographies, with a handful of exceptions.
The package is for demographers, economists, geographers, public health researchers and any other researchers who are interested in geographic factors. The package aims to aid reproducibility, reduce the need to manually download area profiles, and allow easy linking of different datasets covering the same geographic area.
Author
Functions for dealing with prime numbers, such as testing whether a number is prime and generating a sequence prime numbers. Additional functions include finding prime factors and Ruth-Aaron pairs, finding next and previous prime numbers in the series, finding or estimating the nth prime, estimating the number of primes less than or equal to an arbitrary number, computing primorials, and prime k-tuples (e.g., twin primes).
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Split REDCap repeating instruments output into multiple tables. This will take raw output from a REDCap export and split it into a base table and child tables for each repeating instrument. This functionality was also ported into SAS!
Author, Creator
Calculates the power and sample size for Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel tests. There are also several helper functions for working with probability, odds, relative risk, and odds ratio values. This package has been published on CRAN!
Author, Creator
Calculate two sample Student's t-test using summary statistics
rather than feeding it raw data, such as with the stats::t.test() function.
Author, Creator
A text-based implementation of tic-tac-toe. Includes bot opponents.
Author, Creator
Labor force data provided by the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics. From their website (at https://www.bls.gov/lau/):
The Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program produces monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence.
Author, Creator
This package is a learnr demo built for the West Michigan R Users Group
meeting at Big Data Ignite 2017. It is meant to introduce R to a user with some background in coding but who has had little to no experience with R per se.