April 2009 in CRAN

Final

Part of Q2 2009 and 2009.

New packages

170

Updated

Archived

+15

Net growth

New packages (22)

orthogonalsplinebasis Orthogonal B-Spline Basis Functions	2009-04-03
ascii Export R Objects to Several Markup Languages	2009-04-04
HaploSim Functions to Simulate Haplotypes	2009-04-14
mc2d Tools for Two-Dimensional Monte-Carlo Simulations	2009-04-14
EngrExpt Data sets from "Introductory Statistics for Engineering Experimentation"	2009-04-15
OrdMonReg Compute Least Squares Estimates of One Bounded or Two Ordered Isotonic Regression Curves	2009-04-15
hash Full Featured Implementation of Hash Tables/Associative Arrays/Dictionaries	2009-04-15
influence.ME Tools for Detecting Influential Data in Mixed Effects Models	2009-04-15
plspm Partial Least Squares Path Modeling (PLS-PM)	2009-04-15
FBN FISH Based Normalization and Copy Number Inference of SNP Microarray Data	2009-04-16
FD Measuring Functional Diversity (FD) from Multiple Traits, and Other Tools for Functional Ecology	2009-04-16
OrdFacReg Least Squares, Logistic, and Cox-Regression with Ordered Predictors	2009-04-16
RMTstat Distributions, Statistics and Tests Derived from Random Matrix Theory	2009-04-17
diseasemapping Modelling Spatial Variation in Disease Risk for Areal Data	2009-04-17
powerSurvEpi Power and Sample Size Calculation for Survival Analysis of Epidemiological Studies	2009-04-17
MixSim Simulating Data to Study Performance of Clustering Algorithms	2009-04-22
RDS Respondent-Driven Sampling	2009-04-22
VarianceGamma The Variance Gamma Distribution	2009-04-22
CHNOSZ Thermodynamic Calculations and Diagrams for Geochemistry	2009-04-23
ez Easy Analysis and Visualization of Factorial Experiments	2009-04-26
plan Tools for Project Planning	2009-04-26
emplik2 Empirical Likelihood Ratio Test for Two-Sample U-Statistics with Censored Data	2009-04-28

Archived / removed

Why

1 Archived on 2012-06-24: it had check ERRORs since R-2.15.0 (at least) and was not fixed for weeks even after reminders
1 Archived on 2012-07-01: it had check ERRORs since R-2.15.0 (at least) and was not fixed for weeks even after reminders
1 Archived on 2012-07-01; it depends on the archived 'richards' package
1 Archived on 2013-12-21 as maintainer address <kby@bios.unc.edu> bounced.
1 Archived on 2019-01-26 as check problems were not corrected despite reminders.
1 Archived on 2022-03-06 as check problems were not corrected in time.
1 reason not recorded

mcsm Archived on 2022-03-06 as check problems were not corrected in time.	2009-04-28
binarySimCLF Archived on 2013-12-21 as maintainer address <kby@bios.unc.edu> bounced.	2009-04-23
markerSearchPower	2009-04-15
uniCox Archived on 2019-01-26 as check problems were not corrected despite reminders.	2009-04-15
backfitRichards Archived on 2012-06-24: it had check ERRORs since R-2.15.0 (at least) and was not fixed for weeks even after reminders	2009-04-01
richards Archived on 2012-07-01: it had check ERRORs since R-2.15.0 (at least) and was not fixed for weeks even after reminders	2009-04-01
similarityRichards Archived on 2012-07-01; it depends on the archived 'richards' package	2009-04-01

Notable

Major version jumps

gamlss.cens 1.9.0→2.0.0 gamlss.dist 1.9-0→2.0-0 gamlss.mx 1.9-0→2.0-0 gamlss.tr 1.9-0→2.0-0 bigmemory 2.3→3.5 dlm 0.99-0→1.0-0 fgui 0.3.3→1.0-0 onemap 0.1-1→1.0-0 plink 0.1-1→1.0.0 SpatialNP 0.9.1→1.00 archetypes 0.1-1→1.0

First-time CRAN authors

David Hajage ×3 Matti Pastell John Bastiaansen Yu Chen Arie Havelaar ×2 Fadoua Balabdaoui ×2 Christopher Brown ×7 John Hughes ×5 Rense Nieuwenhuis ×2 Ben Pelzer Giorgio Russolillo Gaston Sanchez ×5 Filippo Santambrogio Manfred Te Grotenhuis Laura Trinchera Etienne Laliberté ×2 Bill Shipley ×2 Evan Biederstedt ×16 Patrick Brown ×4 Jorge Chavarro