There is a rich selection of R packages implementing algorithms forclassification and regression tasks out there. The authors legitimatelytake the liberty to tailor the function interfaces according to theirown taste and needs. For us other users, however, this often results instruggling with user interfaces, some of which are rather weird - to putit mildly - and almost always different in terms of arguments and resultstructures. ModTools pursues the goal of offering uniform handling forthe most important regression and classification models in applied dataanalyses. The function FitMod() is designed as a simple and consistentinterface to these original functions while maintaining the flexibilityto pass on all possible arguments. print, plot, summary and predictoperations can so be carried out following the same logic. The resultswill again be reshaped to a reasonable standard. For all the functionsof this package Google styleguides are used as naming rules (in absenceof convincing alternatives). The ’BigCamelCase’ style has beenconsequently applied to functions borrowed from contributed R packagesas well.
As always: Feedback, feature requests, bug reports and othersuggestions are welcome! Please report problems toGitHub issuestracker (preferred) or directly to the maintainer.
You can install the released version ofModToolsfromCRAN with:
install.packages("ModTools")And the development version from GitHub with:
if (!require("remotes"))install.packages("remotes")remotes::install_github("AndriSignorell/ModTools")Warning: This package is still under development.Although the code seems meanwhile quite stable, until release of version1.0 you should be aware that everything in the package might be subjectto change. Backward compatibility is not yet guaranteed. Functions maybe deleted or renamed and new syntax may be inconsistent with earlierversions. By release of version 1.0 the “deprecated-defunct process”will be installed.
Andri Signorell
Helsana Versicherungen AG, Health Sciences, Zurich
HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business AdministrationZurich.
R is a community project. This can be seen from the fact that thispackage includes R source code and/or documentation previously publishedbyvariousauthors and contributors. Special thanks go to Beat Bruengger,Mathias Frueh, Daniel Wollschlaeger for their valuable contributions andtesting. The good things come from all these guys, any problems arelikely due to my tweaking. Thank you all!
Maintainer: Andri Signorell
library(ModTools)demo(bin_mod,package ="ModTools")demo(mult_mod,package ="ModTools")demo(num_mod,package ="ModTools")