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<h2>Table of contents</h2>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/editorial.pdf">Editorial</a><br>
Michael Lawrence</p>
<h3>Contributed Research Articles</h3>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/beath.pdf">metaplus: An R Package for the Analysis of Robust Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression</a><br>
Ken J. Beath</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/wais.pdf">Gender Prediction Methods Based on First Names with genderizeR</a><br>
Kamil Wais</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/sophie-brouste-istas.pdf">Conditional Fractional Gaussian Fields with the Package FieldSim</a><br>
Lambert-Lacroix Sophie, Alexandre Brouste, Jacques Istas</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/demirhan.pdf">rTableICC: An R Package for Random Generation of 2*2*K and R*C Contingency Tables</a><br>
Haydar Demirhan</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/brown.pdf">Maps, Coordinate Reference Systems and Visualising Geographic Data with mapmisc</a><br>
Patrick Brown</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/jacques-yengo-biernacki-etal.pdf">Variable Clustering in High-Dimensional Linear Regression: The R Package clere</a><br>
Julien Jacques, Loïc Yengo, Christophe Biernacki, Mickael Canouil</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/eder-rybicki-kestemont.pdf">Stylometry with R: A Package for Computational Text Analysis</a><br>
Maciej Eder, Jan Rybicki, Mike Kestemont</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/linares-na.pdf">quickpsy: An R Package to Fit Psychometric Functions for Multiple Groups</a><br>
Daniel Linares, Joan López-Moliner</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/sestelo-villanueva-meiramachado-etal.pdf">FWDselect: An R Package for Variable Selection in Regression Models</a><br>
Marta Sestelo, Nora M. Villanueva, Luís Meira-Machado, Javier Roca-Pardiñas</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/joblin-mauerer.pdf">An Interactive Survey Application for Validating Social Network Analysis Techniques</a><br>
Mitchell Joblin, Wolfgang Mauerer</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/franck-osborne.pdf">Exploring Interaction Effects in Factorial Studies using the hiddenf Package in R</a><br>
Christopher T. Franck, Jason A. Osborne</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/messner-mayr-zeileis.pdf">Heteroscedastic Censored and Truncated Regression with crch</a><br>
Jakob W. Messner, Georg J. Mayr, Achim Zeileis</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/pritikin-schmidt.pdf">Model Builder for Item Factor Analysis with OpenMx</a><br>
Joshua Pritikin, Karen Schmidt</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/na-pebesma-heuvelink.pdf">Spatio-Temporal Interpolation using gstat</a><br>
Benedikt Gräler, Edzer Pebesma, Gerard Heuvelink</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/beck.pdf">SWMPr: An R Package for Retrieving, Organizing, and Analyzing Environmental Data for Estuaries</a><br>
Marcus W Beck</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/demirhan-bitirim.pdf">CryptRndTest: An R Package for Testing the Cryptographic Randomness</a><br>
Haydar Demirhan, Nihan Bitirim</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/calvo-na.pdf">scmamp: Statistical Comparison of Multiple Algorithms in Multiple Problems</a><br>
Borja Calvo, Guzmán Santafé</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/an-liu.pdf">keyplayer: An R Package for Locating Key Players in Social Networks</a><br>
Weihua An, Yu-Hsin Liu</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/north.pdf">SchemaOnRead: A Package for Schema-on-Read in R</a><br>
Michael North</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/leeper.pdf">Crowdsourced Data Preprocessing with R and Amazon Mechanical Turk</a><br>
Thomas J. Leeper</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/scrucca-fop-murphy-etal.pdf">mclust 5: Clustering, Classification and Density Estimation Using Gaussian Finite Mixture Models</a><br>
Luca Scrucca, Michael Fop, T. Brendan Murphy, Adrian E. Raftery</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/szkaliczki.pdf">clustering.sc.dp: Optimal Clustering with Sequential Constraint by Using Dynamic Programming</a><br>
Tibor Szkaliczki</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/hu-qutub.pdf">progenyClust: an R package for Progeny Clustering</a><br>
Chenyue W. Hu, Amina A. Qutub</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/giner-smyth.pdf">statmod: Probability Calculations for the Inverse Gaussian Distribution</a><br>
Goknur Giner, Gordon K Smyth</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/wright.pdf">Using DECIPHER v2.0 to Analyze Big Biological Sequence Data in R</a><br>
Erik Wright</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/keyes-rudis-jacobs.pdf">R Packages to Aid in Handling Web Access Logs</a><br>
Oliver Keyes, Bob Rudis, Jay Jacobs</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/feys.pdf">Nonparametric Tests for the Interaction in Two-way Factorial Designs Using R</a><br>
Jos Feys</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/yozgatligil-dag.pdf">GMDH: An R Package for Short Term Forecasting via GMDH – Type Neural Network Algorithms</a><br>
Osman Dag, Ceylan Yozgatligil</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/winslow-chamberlain-appling-etal.pdf">sbtools: A Package Connecting R to Cloud-Based Data for Collaborative Online Research</a><br>
Luke A Winslow, Scott Chamberlain, Alison P Appling, Jordan S Read</p>
<h3>News and Notes</h3>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/user2016.pdf">Conference Report: useR! 2016</a><br>
Joe Rickert</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/cran.pdf">Changes on CRAN</a><br>
Kurt Hornik, Achim Zeileis</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/bioconductor.pdf">News from the Bioconductor Project</a><br>
The Bioconductor Team</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/r-changes.pdf">Changes in R</a><br>
The R Core Team</p>
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