Functions to handle basic input output, these functions
    always read and write UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format)
    files and provide more explicit control over line endings.

An interface to the 'Briq' API <https://briq.github.io>. 'Briq' is
    a tool that aims to promote employee engagement by helping employees
    recognize and reward each other. Employees can praise and thank one another
    (for achieving a company goal, for example) by giving virtual credits (known
    as 'briqs' or 'bqs') that can be redeemed for various rewards. The 'Briq'
    API lets you create, read, update and delete users, user groups,
    transactions and messages. This package provides functions that simplify
    getting the users, user groups and transactions of your organization into R.

Fits bootstrap with univariate spatial regression models using Bootstrap for Rapid Inference on Spatial Covariances (BRISC) for large datasets using nearest neighbor Gaussian processes detailed in Saha and Datta (2018) <doi:10.1002/sta4.184>.

Quantitative methods for benefit-risk analysis help to condense
    complex decisions into a univariate metric describing the overall benefit
    relative to risk.  One approach is to use the multi-criteria decision
    analysis framework (MCDA), as in Mussen, Salek, and Walker
    (2007) <doi:10.1002/pds.1435>.  Bayesian benefit-risk
    analysis incorporates uncertainty through posterior distributions which are
    inputs to the benefit-risk framework.  The brisk package provides functions
    to assist with Bayesian benefit-risk analyses, such as MCDA.
    Users input posterior samples, utility functions, weights, and the package
    outputs quantitative benefit-risk scores.  The posterior of the benefit-risk
    scores for each group can be compared.  Some plotting capabilities are also
    included.

Implementation of the record linkage methodology proposed by Sadinle (2017) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2016.1148612>.  It handles the bipartite record linkage problem, where two duplicate-free datafiles are to be merged.