Continuous convex piecewise linear (ccpl) resp. quadratic (ccpq) functions can be implemented with sorted breakpoints and slopes. This includes functions that are ccpl (resp. ccpq) on a convex set (i.e. an interval or a point) and infinite out of the domain. These functions can be very useful for a large class of optimisation problems. Efficient manipulation (such as log(N) insertion) of such data structure is obtained with map standard template library of C++ (that hides balanced trees). This package is a wrapper on such a class based on Rcpp modules.

A set of utilities for matching products in different
	     classification codes used in international trade
	     research. It supports concordance between the Harmonized
	     System (HS0, HS1, HS2, HS3, HS4, HS5, HS combined), the Standard 
	     International Trade Classification (SITC1, SITC2, SITC3, SITC4), 
	     the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS combined),
	     as well as the Broad Economic Categories (BEC), the International 
	     Standard of Industrial Classification (ISIC), and the Standard Industrial 
	     Classification (SIC). It also provides code nomenclature/descriptions 
	     look-up, Rauch classification look-up (via concordance to SITC2), and
	     trade elasticity look-up (via concordance to HS0 or SITC3
	     codes).

The Concordance Test is a non-parametric method for testing whether two o more samples originate from the same distribution. It extends the Kendall Tau correlation coefficient when there are only two groups. For details, see Alcaraz J., Anton-Sanchez L., Monge J.F. (2022) The Concordance Test, an Alternative to Kruskal-Wallis Based on the Kendall-tau Distance: An R Package. The R Journal 14, 26–53 <doi:10.32614/RJ-2022-039>.

Contains the CONCOR (CONvergence of iterated CORrelations) 
    algorithm and a series of supplemental functions for easy running, 
    plotting, and blockmodeling. The CONCOR algorithm is used on social network
    data to identify network positions based off a definition of structural 
    equivalence; see Breiger, Boorman, and Arabie (1975) 
    <doi:10.1016/0022-2496(75)90028-0> and Wasserman and Faust's book Social 
    Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (1994). This version allows 
    multiple relationships for the same set of nodes and uses both incoming and
    outgoing ties to find positions.