A Collection of Efficient and Extremely Fast R Functions

A collection of fast (utility) functions for data analysis. Column and row wise means, medians, variances, minimums, maximums, many t, F and G-square tests, many regressions (normal, logistic, Poisson), are some of the many fast functions. References: a) Tsagris M., Papadakis M. (2018). Taking R to its limits: 70+ tips. PeerJ Preprints 6:e26605v1 . b) Tsagris M. and Papadakis M. (2018). Forward regression in R: from the extreme slow to the extreme fast. Journal of Data Science, 16(4): 771--780. . c) Chatzipantsiou C., Dimitriadis M., Papadakis M. and Tsagris M. (2020). Extremely Efficient Permutation and Bootstrap Hypothesis Tests Using Hypothesis Tests Using R. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 18(2), eP2898. . d) Tsagris M., Papadakis M., Alenazi A. and Alzeley O. (2024). Computationally Efficient Outlier Detection for High-Dimensional Data Using the MDP Algorithm. Computation, 12(9): 185. . e) Tsagris M. and Papadakis M. (2025). Fast and light-weight energy statistics using the R package Rfast. .

'2bit' 'C' Library

A trimmed down copy of the "kent-core source tree" turned into a 'C' library for manipulation of '.2bit' files. See < https://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html#format7> for a quick overview of the '2bit' format. The "kent-core source tree" can be found here: < https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent-core/>. Only the '.c' and '.h' files from the source tree that are related to manipulation of '.2bit' files were kept. Note that the package is primarily useful to developers of other R packages who wish to use the '2bit' 'C' library in their own 'C'/'C++' code.

R and C++11

Rcpp11 includes a header only C++11 library that facilitates integration between R and modern C++.

RUV-III-C

Variations of Remove Unwanted Variation-III (RUV-III) known as RUV-III-C (RUV-III Complete). RUV-III performs normalisation using negative control variables and replication. RUV-III-C extends this method to cases where the data contains missing values, by applying RUV-III to complete subsets of the data. Originally designed for SWATH-MS proteomics datasets. Poulos et al. (2020) .

'Rcpp'-Based Helper Functions to Pass 'Int64' and 'nanotime' Values Between 'R' and 'C++'

'Int64' values can be created and accessed via the 'bit64' package and its 'integer64' class which package the 'int64' representation cleverly into a 'double'. The 'nanotime' packages builds on this to support nanosecond-resolution timestamps. This packages helps conversions between 'R' and 'C++' via several helper functions provided via a single header file. A complete example client package is included as an illustration.

Interpolation From C

Simple interpolation methods designed to be used from C code. Supports constant, linear and spline interpolation. An R wrapper is included but this package is primarily designed to be used from C code using 'LinkingTo'. The spline calculations are classical cubic interpolation, e.g., Forsythe, Malcolm and Moler (1977) .

R and C++ Interfaces to 'spdlog' C++ Header Library for Logging

The mature and widely-used C++ logging library 'spdlog' by Gabi Melman provides many desirable features. This package bundles these header files for easy use by R packages from both their R and C or C++ code. Explicit use via 'LinkingTo:' is also supported. Also see the 'spdl' package which enhanced this package with a consistent R and C++ interface.

R and C/C++ Wrappers to Run the Leiden find_partition() Function

An R to C/C++ interface that runs the Leiden community detection algorithm to find a basic partition (). It runs the equivalent of the 'leidenalg' find_partition() function, which is given in the 'leidenalg' distribution file 'leiden/src/functions.py'. This package includes the required source code files from the official 'leidenalg' distribution and functions from the R 'igraph' package. The 'leidenalg' distribution is available from < https://github.com/vtraag/leidenalg/> and the R 'igraph' package is available from < https://igraph.org/r/>. The Leiden algorithm is described in the article by Traag et al. (2019) . Leidenbase includes code from the packages: igraph version 0.9.8 with license GPL (>= 2), leidenalg version 0.8.10 with license GPL 3.

Regression Spline Functions and Classes

Constructs basis functions of B-splines, M-splines, I-splines, convex splines (C-splines), periodic splines, natural cubic splines, generalized Bernstein polynomials, their derivatives, and integrals (except C-splines) by closed-form recursive formulas. It also contains a C++ head-only library integrated with Rcpp. See Wang and Yan (2021) for details.

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Package

Contains functions to perform Bayesian inference using posterior simulation for a number of statistical models. Most simulation is done in compiled C++ written in the Scythe Statistical Library Version 1.0.3. All models return 'coda' mcmc objects that can then be summarized using the 'coda' package. Some useful utility functions such as density functions, pseudo-random number generators for statistical distributions, a general purpose Metropolis sampling algorithm, and tools for visualization are provided.