Tools to process legacy format summary redistricting data files
    produced by the United States Census Bureau pursuant to P.L. 94-171. These
    files are generally available earlier but are difficult to work with as-is.

A semi-parametric estimation method for the Cox model
    with left-truncated data using augmented information
    from the marginal of truncation times.

Functions to prepare rankings data and fit the Plackett-Luce model
    jointly attributed to Plackett (1975) <doi:10.2307/2346567> and Luce
    (1959, ISBN:0486441369). The standard Plackett-Luce model is generalized
    to accommodate ties of any order in the ranking. Partial rankings, in which
    only a subset of items are ranked in each ranking, are also accommodated in
    the implementation. Disconnected/weakly connected networks implied by the
    rankings may be handled by adding pseudo-rankings with a hypothetical item.
    Optionally, a multivariate normal prior may be set on the log-worth
    parameters and ranker reliabilities may be incorporated as proposed by
    Raman and Joachims (2014) <doi:10.1145/2623330.2623654>. Maximum a
    posteriori estimation is used when priors are set. Methods are provided to
    estimate standard errors or quasi-standard errors for inference as well as
    to fit Plackett-Luce trees. See the package website or vignette for further
    details.

Provides methods for plotting potentially large (raster) images
    interactively on a plain HTML canvas. In contrast to package 'mapview'
    data are plotted without background map, but data can be projected to
    any spatial coordinate reference system.
    Supports plotting of classes 'RasterLayer', 'RasterStack', 'RasterBrick'
    (from package 'raster') as well as 'png' files located on disk. 
    Interactivity includes zooming, panning, and mouse location information. 
    In case of multi-layer 'RasterStacks' or 'RasterBricks', RGB image plots 
    are created (similar to 'raster::plotRGB' - but interactive).