Automatically fetch, transform and arrange subsets of
    multidimensional data sets (collections of files) stored in local and/or
    remote file systems or servers, using multicore capabilities where possible.
    This tool provides an interface to perceive a collection of data sets as a single
    large multidimensional data array, and enables the user to request for automatic
    retrieval, processing and arrangement of subsets of the large array. Wrapper
    functions to add support for custom file formats can be plugged in/out, making
    the tool suitable for any research field where large multidimensional data sets
    are involved.

Contains functions for estimating the STARTS model of
    Kenny and Zautra (1995, 2001) <DOI:10.1037/0022-006X.63.1.52>,
    <DOI:10.1037/10409-008>. Penalized maximum likelihood
    estimation and Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation are
    also provided, see Luedtke, Robitzsch and Wagner (2018) 
    <DOI:10.1037/met0000155>.

Adds support for R startup configuration via '.Renviron.d' and '.Rprofile.d' directories in addition to '.Renviron' and '.Rprofile' files.  This makes it possible to keep private / secret environment variables separate from other environment variables.  It also makes it easier to share specific startup settings by simply copying a file to a directory.

Provides utilities to create or suppress start-up messages.

Allows the user to estimate a vector logistic smooth transition autoregressive model via maximum log-likelihood or nonlinear least squares. It further permits to test for linearity in the multivariate framework against a vector logistic smooth transition autoregressive model with a single transition variable. The estimation method is discussed in Terasvirta and Yang (2014, <doi:10.1108/S0731-9053(2013)0000031008>). Also, realized covariances can be constructed from stock market prices or returns, as explained in Andersen et al. (2001, <doi:10.1016/S0304-405X(01)00055-1>).

Performance analysis workflow that combines the power of the R
    language (and the tidyverse realm) and many auxiliary tools to
    provide a consistent, flexible, extensible, fast, and versatile
    framework for the performance analysis of task-based applications
    that run on top of the StarPU runtime (with its MPI (Message
    Passing Interface) layer for multi-node support).  Its goal is to
    provide a fruitful prototypical environment to conduct performance
    analysis hypothesis-checking for task-based applications that run
    on heterogeneous (multi-GPU, multi-core) multi-node HPC
    (High-performance computing) platforms.