Package: SGP
Type: Package
Title: An R Package for the Calculation and Visualization of Student
        Growth Percentiles & Percentile Growth Trajectories.
Version: 1.1-0.0
Date: 2013-4-12
Authors@R: c(person("Damian", "Betebenner",
        email="dbetebenner@nciea.org", role=c("aut", "cre")),
        person("Adam", "Van Iwaarden",
        email="vaniwaarden@colorado.edu", role="aut"), person("Ben",
        "Domingue", email="ben.domingue@gmail.com", role="aut"))
Author: Damian W. Betebenner <dbetebenner@nciea.org>, Adam Van Iwaarden
        <vaniwaarden@colorado.edu>, Ben Domingue
        <ben.domingue@gmail.com>, and Yi Shang <shangyi@Gmail.com> with
        contributions from Dr. Jonathan Weeks, Dr. Yi Shang, John
        Stewart, Dr. Jinnie Choi, Dr. Xin Wei, and Hi Shin Shim. With
        special thanks to State Department of Education analysts: Dr.
        Xiaoyuan Tan (Arizona), Dr. Carrie Giovannini (Arizona), Dr.
        Sarah Polasky (Arizona), Rebecca Gau (Arizona), Dr. Bill Bonk
        (Colorado), Marie Huchton (Colorado), Dr. Allison Timberlake
        (Georgia), Dr. Melissa Fincher (Georgia), Kiran Athota
        (Georgia), Travis Allen (Georgia), Glenn Hirata (Hawaii), Glenn
        Nochi (Hawaii), Joshua Lee (Hawaii), Ayaka Nukui (Idaho), Dr.
        Carissa Miller (Idaho), Dr. Wes Bruce (Indiana), Robert
        Hochsegang (Indiana), Tony Moss (Kansas), Dr. Xuewen Sheng
        (Kansas), Dr. Kathy Flanagan (Massachusetts), Robert Lee
        (Massachusetts), Joe DeCastra (Mississippi), Ken Thompson
        (Mississippi), Soo Yeon Cho (Missouri), Dr. Jeff Halsell
        (Nevada), Dr. Selcuk Ozdemir (Nevada), Roger Silva (Nevada),
        Deb Wiswell (New Hampshire), Katya Levitan-Reiner (New Haven
        Public Schools), Catherine McCaslin (New Haven Public Schools),
        Joshua Marland (New York), W Joshua Rew (Oregon), Jason Becker
        (Rhode Island), Dr. Jessica Brown (Rhode Island), Ana
        Karantonis (Rhode Island), Dr. Deborah Jonas (Virginia), Juan
        D'Brot (West Virginia), Dr. Deb Came (Washington), Krissy
        Johnson (Washington), Nate Hixson (West Virginia), Daniel Bush
        (Wisconsin), Justin Meyer (Wisconsin), Joseph Newton
        (Wisconsin), Dr. Philip Olsen (Wisconsin), Nick Stroud
        (Wisconsin), Brendan Houng (University of Melbourne,
        Australia).
Maintainer: Damian W. Betebenner <dbetebenner@nciea.org>
Depends: R (>= 2.15), SGPdata (>= 7.0-0), methods
Suggests: randomNames (>= 0.0-5), parallel
Imports: Cairo, colorspace, data.table (>= 1.8.6), doParallel, foreach,
        grid, gridBase, iterators, plyr, quantreg, reshape2, RSQLite,
        sn, SparseM, splines
Description: Functions to calculate student growth percentiles and
        percentile growth projections/trajectories for students using
        large scale, longitudinal assessment data.  Functions use
        quantile regression to estimate the conditional density
        associated with each student's achievement history.  Percentile
        growth projections/trajectories are calculated using the
        coefficient matrices derived from the quantile regression
        analyses and specify what percentile growth is required for
        students to reach future achievement targets.
SystemRequirements: (PDF)LaTeX (http://www.latex-project.org/) with
        'pdfpages' package for studentGrowthPlot option in visualizeSGP
        to bind together student growth plots into school catalogs.
URL: https://github.com/SchoolView/SGP,
        http://schoolview.github.com/SGP/,
        http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SGP/
LazyData: Yes
LazyDataCompression: xz
License: CC BY-SA 3.0 US + file LICENSE
ByteCompile: TRUE
Packaged: 2013-04-12 11:02:43 UTC; root
NeedsCompilation: no
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2013-04-12 16:48:16
