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!
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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