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<h2>Table of contents</h2>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017-1/editorial.pdf" target="_blank">Editorial <img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Roger Bivand <span>4</span></p>
<h3>Contributed Research Articles</h3>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-001/index.html" target="_blank">iotools: High-Performance I/O Tools for R</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-001/RJ-2017-001.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Taylor Arnold, Michael J. Kane and Simon Urbanek <span>6</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-002/index.html" target="_blank">IsoGeneGUI: Multiple Approaches for Dose-Response Analysis of Microarray Data Using R</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-002/RJ-2017-002.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Martin Otava, Rudradev Sengupta, Ziv Shkedy, Dan Lin, Setia Pramana, Tobias Verbeke, Philippe Haldermans, Ludwig A. Hothorn, Daniel Gerhard, Rebecca M. Kuiper, Florian Klinglmueller and Adetayo Kasim <span>14</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-023/index.html" target="_blank">Network Visualization with ggplot2</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-023/RJ-2017-023.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Sam Tyner, François Briatte and Heike Hofmann <span>27</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-003/index.html" target="_blank">OrthoPanels: An R Package for Estimating a Dynamic Panel Model with Fixed Effects Using the Orthogonal Reparameterization Approach</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-003/RJ-2017-003.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Mark Pickup, Paul Gustafson, Davor Cubranic and Geoffrey Evans <span>60</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-024/index.html" target="_blank">The mosaic Package: Helping Students to Think with Data Using R</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-024/RJ-2017-024.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Randall Pruim, Daniel T Kaplan and Nicholas J Horton <span>77</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-004/index.html" target="_blank">smoof: Single- and Multi-Objective Optimization Test Functions</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-004/RJ-2017-004.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Jakob Bossek <span>103</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-031/index.html" target="_blank">minval: An R package for MINimal VALidation of Stoichiometric Reactions</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-031/RJ-2017-031.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Daniel Osorio, Janneth González and Andrés Pinzón <span>114</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-032/index.html" target="_blank">Working with Daily Climate Model Output Data in R and the futureheatwaves Package</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-032/RJ-2017-032.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
G. Brooke Anderson, Colin Eason and Elizabeth A. Barnes <span>124</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-005/index.html" target="_blank">alineR: an R Package for Optimizing Feature-Weighted Alignments and Linguistic Distances</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-005/RJ-2017-005.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Sean S. Downey, Guowei Sun and Peter Norquest <span>138</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-006/index.html" target="_blank">Implementing a Metapopulation Bass Diffusion Model using the R Package deSolve</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-006/RJ-2017-006.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Jim Duggan <span>153</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-007/index.html" target="_blank">MDplot: Visualise Molecular Dynamics</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-007/RJ-2017-007.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Christian Margreitter and Chris Oostenbrink <span>164</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-008/index.html" target="_blank">On Some Extensions to GA Package: Hybrid Optimisation, Parallelisation and Islands EvolutionOn some extensions to GA package: hybrid optimisation, parallelisation and islands evolution</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-008/RJ-2017-008.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Luca Scrucca <span>187</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-009/index.html" target="_blank">imputeTS: Time Series Missing Value Imputation in R</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-009/RJ-2017-009.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Steffen Moritz and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein <span>207</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-027/index.html" target="_blank">The NoiseFiltersR Package: Label Noise Preprocessing in R</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-027/RJ-2017-027.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Pablo Morales, Julián Luengo, Luís P.F. Garcia, Ana C. Lorena, André C.P.L.F. de Carvalho and Francisco Herrera <span>219</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-018/index.html" target="_blank">coxphMIC: An R Package for Sparse Estimation of Cox Proportional Hazards Models via Approximated Information Criteria</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-018/RJ-2017-018.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Razieh Nabi and Xiaogang Su <span>229</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-010/index.html" target="_blank">Update of the nlme Package to Allow a Fixed Standard Deviation of the Residual Error</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-010/RJ-2017-010.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Simon H. Heisterkamp, Engelbertus van Willigen, Paul-Matthias Diderichsen and John Maringwa <span>239</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-011/index.html" target="_blank">EMSaov: An R Package for the Analysis of Variance with the Expected Mean Squares and its Shiny Application</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-011/RJ-2017-011.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Hye-Min Choe, Mijeong Kim and Eun-Kyung Lee <span>252</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-015/index.html" target="_blank">GsymPoint: An R Package to Estimate the Generalized Symmetry Point, an Optimal Cut-off Point for Binary Classification in Continuous Diagnostic Tests</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-015/RJ-2017-015.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Mónica López-Ratón, Elisa M. Molanes-López, Emilio Letón and Carmen Cadarso-Suárez <span>262</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-025/index.html" target="_blank">autoimage: Multiple Heat Maps for Projected Coordinates</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-025/RJ-2017-025.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Joshua P. French <span>284</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-020/index.html" target="_blank">Market Area Analysis for Retail and Service Locations with MCI</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-020/RJ-2017-020.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Thomas Wieland <span>298</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-021/index.html" target="_blank">PSF: Introduction to R Package for Pattern Sequence Based Forecasting Algorithm</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-021/RJ-2017-021.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Neeraj Bokde, Gualberto Asencio-Cortés, Francisco Martínez-Álvarez and Kishore Kulat <span>324</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-029/index.html" target="_blank">flan: An R Package for Inference on Mutation Models.</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-029/RJ-2017-029.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Adrien Mazoyer, Rémy Drouilhet, Stéphane Despréaux and Bernard Ycart <span>334</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-012/index.html" target="_blank">Multilabel Classification with R Package mlr</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-012/RJ-2017-012.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Philipp Probst, Quay Au, Giuseppe Casalicchio, Clemens Stachl and Bernd Bischl <span>352</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-033/index.html" target="_blank">Counterfactual: An R Package for Counterfactual Analysis</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-033/RJ-2017-033.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Mingli Chen, Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Fernández-Val and Blaise Melly <span>370</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-019/index.html" target="_blank">Retrieval and Analysis of Eurostat Open Data with the eurostat Package</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-019/RJ-2017-019.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Leo Lahti, Janne Huovari, Markus Kainu and Przemysław Biecek <span>385</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-030/index.html" target="_blank">PGEE: An R Package for Analysis of Longitudinal Data with High-Dimensional Covariates</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-030/RJ-2017-030.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Gul Inan and Lan Wang <span>393</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-022/index.html" target="_blank">BayesBinMix: an R Package for Model Based Clustering of Multivariate Binary Data</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-022/RJ-2017-022.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Panagiotis Papastamoulis and Magnus Rattray <span>403</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-016/index.html" target="_blank">pdp: An R Package for Constructing Partial Dependence Plots</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-016/RJ-2017-016.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Brandon M. Greenwell <span>421</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-028/index.html" target="_blank">checkmate: Fast Argument Checks for Defensive R Programming</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-028/RJ-2017-028.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Michel Lang <span>437</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-013/index.html" target="_blank">milr: Multiple-Instance Logistic Regression with Lasso Penalty</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-013/RJ-2017-013.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Ping-Yang Chen, Ching-Chuan Chen, Chun-Hao Yang, Sheng-Mao Chang and Kuo-Jung Lee <span>446</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-014/index.html" target="_blank">spcadjust: An R Package for Adjusting for Estimation Error in Control Charts</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-014/RJ-2017-014.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Axel Gandy and Jan Terje Kvaløy <span>458</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-017/index.html" target="_blank">Weighted Effect Coding for Observational Data with wec</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-017/RJ-2017-017.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Rense Nieuwenhuis, Manfred te Grotenhuis and Ben Pelzer <span>477</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-026/index.html" target="_blank">Hosting Data Packages via drat: A Case Study with Hurricane Exposure Data</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-026/RJ-2017-026.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
G. Brooke Anderson and Dirk Eddelbuettel <span>486</span></p>
<h3>News and Notes</h3>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017-1/foundation.pdf" target="_blank">R Foundation News <img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Torsten Hothorn <span>498</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017-1/erum.pdf" target="_blank">Conference Report: European R Users Meeting 2016 <img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Maciej Beręsewicz, Adolfo Alvarez, Przemysław Biecek, Marcin K. Dyderski, Marcin Kosinski, Jakub Nowosad, Kamil Rotter, Alicja Szabelska-Beręsewicz, Marcin Szymkowiak, Łukasz Wawrowski and Joanna Zyprych-Walczak <span>501</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017-1/cran.pdf" target="_blank">Changes on CRAN <img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Kurt Hornik, Uwe Ligges and Achim Zeileis <span>505</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017-1/bioc.pdf" target="_blank">News from the Bioconductor Project <img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
Bioconductor Core Team <span>508</span></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017-1/ch.pdf" target="_blank">Changes in R <img alt="PDF download" src="https://i1.wp.com/journal.r-project.org/archive/PDF-icon.png?resize=25%2C24&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a><br>
R Core Team <span>509</span></p>
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