Efficient Voting Methods for Committee Selection

A fast 'Rcpp'-based implementation of polynomially-computable voting theory methods for committee ranking and scoring. The package includes methods such as Approval Voting (AV), Satisfaction Approval Voting (SAV), sequential Proportional Approval Voting (PAV), and sequential Phragmen's Rule. Weighted variants of these methods are also provided, allowing for differential voter influence.

Visualize 'Confounder' Control in Meta-Analyses

Visualize 'confounder' control in meta-analysis. 'metaconfoundr' is an approach to evaluating bias in studies used in meta-analyses based on the causal inference framework. Study groups create a causal diagram displaying their assumptions about the scientific question. From this, they develop a list of important 'confounders'. Then, they evaluate whether studies controlled for these variables well. 'metaconfoundr' is a toolkit to facilitate this process and visualize the results as heat maps, traffic light plots, and more.

The Gumbel-Hougaard Copula

Provides probability functions (cumulative distribution and density functions), simulation function (Gumbel copula multivariate simulation) and estimation functions (Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Inference For Margins, Moment Based Estimation and Canonical Maximum Likelihood).

Sustainable Transport Planning

Tools for transport planning with an emphasis on spatial transport data and non-motorized modes. The package was originally developed to support the 'Propensity to Cycle Tool', a publicly available strategic cycle network planning tool (Lovelace et al. 2017) , but has since been extended to support public transport routing and accessibility analysis (Moreno-Monroy et al. 2017) and routing with locally hosted routing engines such as 'OSRM' (Lowans et al. 2023) . The main functions are for creating and manipulating geographic "desire lines" from origin-destination (OD) data (building on the 'od' package); calculating routes on the transport network locally and via interfaces to routing services such as < https://cyclestreets.net/> (Desjardins et al. 2021) ; and calculating route segment attributes such as bearing. The package implements the 'travel flow aggregration' method described in Morgan and Lovelace (2020) and the 'OD jittering' method described in Lovelace et al. (2022) . Further information on the package's aim and scope can be found in the vignettes and in a paper in the R Journal (Lovelace and Ellison 2018) , and in a paper outlining the landscape of open source software for geographic methods in transport planning (Lovelace, 2021) .

Sourcing Archaeological Materials by Chemical Composition

Exploration and analysis of compositional data in the framework of Aitchison (1986, ISBN: 978-94-010-8324-9). This package provides tools for chemical fingerprinting and source tracking of ancient materials.

Wrangle, Analyze, and Visualize Animal Movement Data

Tools to import, clean, and visualize movement data, particularly from motion capture systems such as Optitrack's 'Motive', the Straw Lab's 'Flydra', or from other sources. We provide functions to remove artifacts, standardize tunnel position and tunnel axes, select a region of interest, isolate specific trajectories, fill gaps in trajectory data, and calculate 3D and per-axis velocity. For experiments of visual guidance, we also provide functions that use subject position to estimate perception of visual stimuli.

Validation Tools for Artificial Neural Networks

Methods and tools for analysing and validating the outputs and modelled functions of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in terms of predictive, replicative and structural validity. Also provides a method for fitting feed-forward ANNs with a single hidden layer.

Structural Bayesian Information Criterion for Graphical Models

This is the implementation of the novel structural Bayesian information criterion by Zhou, 2020 (under review). In this method, the prior structure is modeled and incorporated into the Bayesian information criterion framework. Additionally, we also provide the implementation of a two-step algorithm to generate the candidate model pool.

R Interface to 'EPP-Lab', a Java Program for Exploratory Projection Pursuit

An R Interface to 'EPP-lab' v1.0. 'EPP-lab' is a Java program for projection pursuit using genetic algorithms written by Alain Berro and S. Larabi Marie-Sainte and is included in the package.

Fitting Linear Models with Endogenous Regressors using Latent Instrumental Variables

Fits linear models with endogenous regressor using latent instrumental variable approaches. The methods included in the package are Lewbel's (1997) higher moments approach as well as Lewbel's (2012) heteroscedasticity approach, Park and Gupta's (2012) joint estimation method that uses Gaussian copula and Kim and Frees's (2007) multilevel generalized method of moment approach that deals with endogeneity in a multilevel setting. These are statistical techniques to address the endogeneity problem where no external instrumental variables are needed. See the publication related to this package in the Journal of Statistical Software for more details: . Note that with version 2.0.0 sweeping changes were introduced which greatly improve functionality and usability but break backwards compatibility.