Methods and plotting functions for displaying categorical data on an 
             interactive heatmap using 'plotly'. Provides functionality for strictly 
             categorical heatmaps, heatmaps illustrating categorized continuous data 
             and annotated heatmaps. Also, there are various options to interact with the x-axis
             to prevent overlapping axis labels, e.g. via simple sliders or range sliders. 
             Besides the viewer pane, resulting plots can be saved as a standalone HTML file, 
             embedded in 'R Markdown' documents or in a 'Shiny' app.

Contains several basic utility functions including: moving
        (rolling, running) window statistic functions, read/write for
        GIF and ENVI binary files, fast calculation of AUC, LogitBoost
        classifier, base64 encoder/decoder, round-off-error-free sum
        and cumsum, etc.

Allows the user to categorise a continuous predictor variable in a logistic or a Cox proportional hazards regression setting, by maximising the discriminative ability of the model. I Barrio, I Arostegui, MX Rodriguez-Alvarez, JM Quintana (2015) <doi:10.1177/0962280215601873>. I Barrio,  MX Rodriguez-Alvarez, L Meira-Machado, C Esteban, I Arostegui (2017) <https://www.idescat.cat/sort/sort411/41.1.3.barrio-etal.pdf>.

Provides routines for the generation of response patterns under unidimensional dichotomous and polytomous computerized adaptive testing (CAT) framework. It holds many standard functions to estimate ability, select the first item(s) to administer and optimally select the next item, as well as several stopping rules. Options to control for item exposure and content balancing are also available (Magis and Barrada (2017) <doi:10.18637/jss.v076.c01>).

Computes solutions for linear and logistic regression models with potentially high-dimensional categorical predictors. This is done by applying a nonconvex penalty (SCOPE) and computing solutions in an efficient path-wise fashion. The scaling of the solution paths is selected automatically. Includes functionality for selecting tuning parameter lambda by k-fold cross-validation and early termination based on information criteria. Solutions are computed by cyclical block-coordinate descent, iterating an innovative dynamic programming algorithm to compute exact solutions for each block.