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Author: ercbk

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 ## Misc {#sec-ag-misc .unnumbered}
 
 -   Packages
+    -   [{]{style="color: #990000"}[aridagri](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/aridagri/index.html){style="color: #990000"}[}]{style="color: #990000"} - Provides 35+ functions for statistical analysis in agricultural research, with special focus on experimental design analysis and agronomic calculations
+        -   Complete ANOVA Suite: All experimental designs with proper error terms
+        -   Multiple Post-Hoc Tests: LSD, Duncan, Tukey, SNK, Scheffé, Bonferroni, Dunnett
+        -   Stability Analysis: 7 methods (Eberhart-Russell, AMMI, Finlay-Wilkinson, Shukla, Wricke, CV, Superiority)
+        -   Thermal Indices: GDD, HTU, PTU, Heat Use Efficiency
+        -   Crop Growth Analysis: CGR, RGR, NAR, LAI
+        -   Publication-Ready Output: Formatted tables with SE, CD, CV
     -   [{]{style="color: #990000"}[STCCGEV](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/STCCGEV/index.html){style="color: #990000"}[}]{style="color: #990000"} - Spatio-Temporal, Conditional Copula Model for Crop Yield Forecasting
         -   Incorporates extreme weather covariates and Bayesian Structural Time Series models to analyze crop yield dependencies across multiple regions
 -   Papers

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     -   [{]{style="color: #990000"}[econgoods](https://github.com/UchidaMizuki/econgoods){style="color: #990000"}[}]{style="color: #990000"} - Provides various utility functions and usage with composite goods in economics.
         -   Current utility functions: Constant elasticity of substitution (CES) utility, Leontief utility, Cobb-Douglas utility, marginal utility for two goods
         -   `util_calibrate`: Fit parameters of utility functions to the given prices and quantities.
+    -   [{]{style="color: #990000"}[nowcast](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nowcast/index.html){style="color: #990000"}[}]{style="color: #990000"} - Provides bridge equations with optional autoregressive terms for nowcasting low-frequency macroeconomic variables (e.g. quarterly GDP) from higher-frequency indicators (e.g. monthly retail sales).
+        -   Handles the ragged-edge problem where different indicators have different publication lags via mixed-frequency alignment.
+        -   Includes pseudo-real-time evaluation with expanding or rolling windows, and the Diebold-Mariano test
 -   **Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE)** models, which are popular in macroeconomic modeling, are garbage ([article](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/11/a-big-and-embarrassing-challenge-to-dsge-models.html))
     -   Even under extremely ideal conditions they don't retrieve the parameters and using them to forecast is no better than chance.
 

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     -   A place to store and ship code & data
     -   Compute ("infrastructure") to execute the code on
     -   Tools to orchestrate, monitor, and report on operations of the code
+-   Using R for projects
+    -   R is stable, widely used, and institutionally relevant. It's been consistently in or around the top 10 computer programming rankings
+        -   The community is active.
+        -   The ecosystem is healthy.
+        -   The language continues to matter in research, statistics, and data‑driven work.
+    -   TIOBE Index\
+        ![](_resources/Low-Hanging-Fruit.resources/tiobe-index-2007-2026-1.webp){.lightbox width="632"}
+    -   Companies that use R for data science
+        -   Captial One
+        -   Johnson & Johnson
+        -   GSK
+        -   Roche
+        -   Novo Nordisk
+        -   Oventive
 
 ## What you offer {#sec-lhf-wyo .unnumbered}