Provides tools for constructing, manipulating and using distance metrics.

Calculates distances from point locations to features.
    The usual approach for eg. resource selection function analyses is to
    generate a complete distance to features surface then sample it with your 
    observed and random points. Since these raster based approaches can be
    pretty costly with large areas, and often lead to memory issues in R, 
    the distanceto package opts to compute these distances using
    efficient, vector based approaches. As a helper, there's a decidedly 
    low-res raster based approach for visually inspecting your region's 
    distance surface. But the workhorse is distance_to.

Fast C++ implementation of Dynamic Time Warping for time series dissimilarity analysis, with applications in environmental monitoring and sensor data analysis, climate science, signal processing and pattern recognition, and financial data analysis. Built upon the ideas presented in Benito and Birks (2020) <doi:10.1111/ecog.04895>, provides tools for analyzing time series of varying lengths and structures, including irregular multivariate time series. Key features include individual variable contribution analysis, restricted permutation tests for statistical significance, and imputation of missing data via GAMs. Additionally, the package provides an ample set of tools to prepare and manage time series data.

Implement DiSTATIS and CovSTATIS  (three-way multidimensional scaling).  DiSTATIS and CovSTATIS are used to analyze multiple distance/covariance matrices collected on the same set of observations. These methods are based on Abdi, H., Williams, L.J., Valentin, D., & Bennani-Dosse, M. (2012) <doi:10.1002/wics.198>.

Implementing algorithms and fitting models when sites (possibly remote) share
  computation summaries rather than actual data over HTTP with a master R process (using
  'opencpu', for example). A stratified Cox model and a singular value decomposition are
  provided. The former makes direct use of code from the R 'survival' package. (That is,
  the underlying Cox model code is derived from that in the R 'survival' package.)
  Sites may provide data via several means: CSV files, Redcap API, etc. An extensible
  design allows for new methods to be added in the future and includes facilities
  for local prototyping and testing. Web applications are provided (via 'shiny') for
  the implemented methods to help in designing and deploying the computations.