Dear all,
this message is to inform the community about the activity in our
function package repository: during the months of November and
December 2025, 4 packages were updated to a new version and a new
one was released. (I'm putting two months together because last
month I just forgot, hehehe)
The updates were:
"basis_functions", by myself (splines, fractional polynomials,
Fourier series etc)
"CSDpanel.zip, by Sven Schreiber and Jörg Breitung (test and
estimators for panels with cross-section dependence)
"season_plot", by Artur Tarassow (Buys Ballot plots)
"hausman_taylor", by Allin Cottrell (Hausman-Taylor panel model)
And some stats on 2025: we had over 24,000 downloads for our
function packages. The top ten:
| downloads | package name | description | ||||
| 747 | lpmfx | logit/probit marginal effects | ||||
| 661 | getYahoo | To download financial data from Yahoo Finance | ||||
| 616 | yahoo_get | Downloader of daily financial data from Yahoo | ||||
| 514 | auto_arima | Return best SARIMA(X) model according to information criteria value | ||||
| 512 | heatmap | Heatmap, contour and 3D plots | ||||
| 507 | FEP | Forecast Evaluation Package | ||||
| 498 | ADMBP | ARDL Dynamic Multiplier Bootstrap Package | ||||
| 448 | SB | Stationary bootstrap resampling of time series | ||||
| 427 | PPtest | Phillips-Perron unit root test | ||||
| 404 | adalasso | adaptive Lasso | ||||
Kudos to the contributors!
------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti@univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------