New tools for post-selection inference, for use with forward
    stepwise regression, least angle regression, the lasso, and the many means
    problem. The lasso function implements Gaussian, logistic and Cox survival
    models.

Publication bias, the fact that studies identified for inclusion in a meta analysis do not represent all studies on the topic of interest, is commonly recognized as a threat to the validity of the results of a meta analysis. One way to explicitly model publication bias is via selection models or weighted probability distributions. In this package we provide implementations of several parametric and nonparametric weight functions. The novelty in Rufibach (2011) is the proposal of a non-increasing variant of the nonparametric weight function of Dear & Begg (1992). The new approach potentially offers more insight in the selection process than other methods, but is more flexible than parametric approaches. To maximize the log-likelihood function proposed by Dear & Begg (1992) under a monotonicity constraint we use a differential evolution algorithm proposed by Ardia et al (2010a, b) and implemented in Mullen et al (2009). In addition, we offer a method to compute a confidence interval for the overall effect size theta, adjusted for selection bias as well as a function that computes the simulation-based p-value to assess the null hypothesis of no selection as described in Rufibach (2011, Section 6).

Translates a CSS selector into an equivalent XPath
  expression. This allows us to use CSS selectors when working with
  the XML package as it can only evaluate XPath expressions. Also
  provided are convenience functions useful for using CSS selectors on
  XML nodes. This package is a port of the Python package 'cssselect'
  (<https://cssselect.readthedocs.io/>).

Fit and selects point pattern models based on minimum contrast, AIC and and goodness of fit.

Detection of outliers and influential errors using a latent variable model.

A user-friendly wrapper for web automation, using either
    'chromote' or 'selenium'. Provides a simple and consistent API to make
    web scraping and testing scripts easy to write and understand.
    Elements are lazy, and automatically wait for the website to be valid,
    resulting in reliable and reproducible code, with no visible impact on
    the experience of the programmer.