Implements readers and writers for file formats associated with genetics data.  Reading and writing Plink BED/BIM/FAM and GCTA binary GRM formats is fully supported, including a lightning-fast BED reader and writer implementations.  Other functions are 'readr' wrappers that are more constrained, user-friendly, and efficient for these particular applications; handles Plink and Eigenstrat tables (FAM, BIM, IND, and SNP files).  There are also make functions for FAM and BIM tables with default values to go with simulated genotype data.

Provides tools to interact nicely with the 'Genius' API 
    <https://docs.genius.com/>. 
    Search hosted content, extract associated metadata and retrieve lyrics with ease.

Computes the solution path for generalized lasso problems. Important use cases are the fused lasso over an arbitrary graph, and trend fitting of any given polynomial order. Specialized implementations for the latter two subproblems are given to improve stability and speed. See Taylor Arnold and Ryan Tibshirani (2016) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2015.1008638>.

Genealogical data analysis including descriptive statistics (e.g., kinship and inbreeding coefficients) and gene-dropping simulations. See: "GENLIB: an R package for the analysis of genealogical data" Gauvin et al. (2015) <doi:10.1186/s12859-015-0581-5>.

Provides basic distribution functions for a generalized logistic distribution proposed by Rathie and Swamee (2006) <https://www.rroij.com/open-access/on-new-generalized-logistic-distributions-and-applicationsbarreto-fhs-mota-jma-and-rathie-pn-.pdf>. It also has an interactive 'RStudio' plot for better guessing dynamically of initial values for ease of included optimization and simulating.

Provides routines to estimate the Mixture Transition Distribution Model based on Raftery (1985) <http://www.jstor.org/stable/2345788> and Nicolau (2014) <doi:10.1111/sjos.12087> specifications, for multivariate data. Additionally, provides a  function for the estimation of a new model for multivariate non-homogeneous Markov chains. This new specification, Generalized Multivariate Markov Chains (GMMC) was proposed by Carolina Vasconcelos and Bruno Damasio and considers (continuous or discrete) covariates exogenous to the Markov chain.