Three-Dimensional Exploratory Projection Pursuit

Exploratory projection pursuit is a method to discovers structure in multivariate data. At heart this package uses a projection index to evaluate how interesting a specific three-dimensional projection of multivariate data (with more than three dimensions) is. Typically, the main structure finding algorithm starts at a random projection and then iteratively changes the projection direction to move to a more interesting one. In other words, the projection index is maximised over the projection direction to find the most interesting projection. This maximum is, though, a local maximum. So, this code has the ability to restart the algorithm from many different starting positions automatically. Routines exist to plot a density estimate of projection indices over the runs, this enables the user to obtain an idea of the distribution of the projection indices, and, hence, which ones might be interesting. Individual projection solutions, including those identified as interesting, can be extracted and plotted individually. The package can make use of the mclapply() function to execute multiple runs in parallel to speed up index discovery. Projection pursuit is similar to independent component analysis. This package uses a projection index that maximises an entropy measure to look for projections that exhibit non-normality, and operates on sphered data. Hence, information from this package is different from that obtained from principal components analysis, but the rationale behind both methods is similar. Nason, G. P. (1995) .

Data Sonification - Turning Data into Sound

Sonification (or audification) is the process of representing data by sounds in the audible range. This package provides the R function sonify() that transforms univariate data, sampled at regular or irregular intervals, into a continuous sound with time-varying frequency. The ups and downs in frequency represent the ups and downs in the data. Sonify provides a substitute for R's plot function to simplify data analysis for the visually impaired.

Download and Import Open Street Map Data Extracts

Match, download, convert and import Open Street Map data extracts obtained from several providers.

Infrastructure for Running, Cycling and Swimming Data from GPS-Enabled Tracking Devices

Provides infrastructure for handling running, cycling and swimming data from GPS-enabled tracking devices within R. The package provides methods to extract, clean and organise workout and competition data into session-based and unit-aware data objects of class 'trackeRdata' (S3 class). The information can then be visualised, summarised, and analysed through flexible and extensible methods. Frick and Kosmidis (2017) , which is updated and maintained as one of the vignettes, provides detailed descriptions of the package and its methods, and real-data demonstrations of the package functionality.

Robust Mixture Model

Algorithms for estimating robustly the parameters of a Gaussian, Student, or Laplace Mixture Model.

Bayesian Analysis of Computer Code Output (BACCO)

The BACCO bundle of packages is replaced by the BACCO package, which provides a vignette that illustrates the constituent packages (emulator, approximator, calibrator) in use.

The Davies Quantile Function

Various utilities for the Davies distribution.

Bayesian Prediction of Complex Computer Codes

Performs Bayesian prediction of complex computer codes when fast approximations are available. It uses a hierarchical version of the Gaussian process, originally proposed by Kennedy and O'Hagan (2000), Biometrika 87(1):1.

Continued Fractions

Various utilities for evaluating continued fractions.

Produces 'bubbleHeatmap' Plots for Visualising Metabolomics Data

Plotting package based on the grid system, combining elements of a bubble plot and heatmap to conveniently display two numerical variables, (represented by color and size) grouped by categorical variables on the x and y axes. This is a useful alternative to a forest plot when the data can be grouped in two dimensions, such as predictors x outcomes. It has particular advantages for visualising the metabolic measures produced by the 'Nightingale Health' metabolomics platform, and templates are included for automatically generating figures from these datasets.