New version of the volkeR package released
(19.12.2024) Jakob Jünger and Henrieke Kotthoff have released version 3.0 of the volkeR package on CRAN. The new version now includes cluster analyses and principal component analyses. This allows groups to be identified in data sets and variables to be summarised into dimensions in order to clearly present complex relationships.
The basic idea behind volkeR is to provide a minimalist but efficient collection of functions that cover the most common tasks in data analysis. One focus is on reporting results. With just a few commands, users can generate an R markdown document in RStudio that already contains the basic formatting of a report. By simply adapting codes, frequency tables, bar charts and tabular overviews of distribution parameters can be generated and effect sizes and significance tests can be calculated.
With the volkeR package, the IfK has its own package for statistics training in the bachelor's and master's degree programmes at the department. By reducing the package to a few basic functions, it is easy to teach and is also used in research for quick initial analyses.
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