Created the CTVsuggest and CTVsuggestTrain R Packages.
- The CTVsuggest R package outputs suggestions for packages to be added to CRAN Task Views.
- The CTVsuggestTrain R package carries out the model building process.
These R packages are based on follow up work of my 4th year university dissertation.
The functionality of the CTVsuggest package was announced by Achim Zeileis to the CRAN Task View maintainers, on the 22nd of March 2023, and was cited in this report describing the transfer of the Task View management to GitHub. Since the release, the package has been frequently used by maintainers, with examples given below.
Feedback from Task View Maintainers
Feedback just after the release in 22/03/23:
Michael Dewey, maintainer of the MetaAnalysis Task View, wrote:
“Just for your info of the top twenty for MetaAnalysis five were definitely relevant and all occurred in the top ten. At least three of these have been in the CTV at some point but fallen off CRAN and then come back. It also found two more which I think are of peripheral relevance. I will have a think about them.”
These two commits were made: Commit 1 and Commit 2 afte the package announcement.
Bill Denney, maintainer of the Pharmacokinetics Task View, wrote:
“Thanks for the package. I just updated the Pharmacokinetics CTV using it, and it provided a list of several more packages that I was not aware of.”
A commit was made.
Further examples of CTVsuggest being used for Task View maintenance:
- 26/03/2023 - Commit titled: “many adds, including many from CTVsuggest” was made in the ChemPhys Task View.
- 12/04/2023 - In the Distributions Task View, CTVsuggest has been added to the workflow.
- 13/04/2023 - Commits made in MissingData Task View: 1, 2, 3.
- 09/05/2023 - Issue in the Hydrology Task View agreeing with CTVsuggest suggestions.
- 27/10/2023 - Issue opened in Omics Task View.
- 27/03/2024 - Additions in the Epidemiology Task View, with commits mentioned in this issue.
- 20/09/2024 - Additions in the SportsAnalytics Task View, with commits mentioned in this issue.
- 19/11/2024 - Issue in the DynamicVisualizations Task View.
- 09/12/2024 - Issue in the Phylogenetics Task View, where they added a bunch of recommended packages.
- 09/12/2024 - Issue in the Paleontology Task View, looking at suggestions from CTVsuggest.
Tail-robust estimation of factor-adjusted vector autoregressive models for high-dimensional time series
As part of my PhD, alongside my supervisor Haeran Cho, we wrote a paper proposing a methodology to model high-dimensional time-series which can handle heavy-tailed data. The prepint is available here, and the corresponding code here.