Indicators and measures by country and time describe
    what happens at economic and social levels. This package provides
    functions to calculate several measures of convergence after imputing
    missing values. The automated downloading of Eurostat data,
    followed by the production of country fiches and indicator fiches,
    makes possible to produce automated reports.
    The Eurofound report (<doi:10.2806/68012>)
    "Upward convergence in the EU: Concepts, measurements and indicators", 
    2018, is a detailed  presentation of  convergence.

Analyze and compare conversations using various similarity measures
    including topic, lexical, semantic, structural, stylistic, sentiment,
    participant, and timing similarities. Supports both pairwise conversation
    comparisons and analysis of multiple dyads. Methods are based on established research:
    Topic modeling: Blei et al. (2003) <doi:10.1162/jmlr.2003.3.4-5.993>;
    Landauer et al. (1998) <doi:10.1080/01638539809545028>;
    Lexical similarity: Jaccard (1912) <doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1912.tb05611.x>;
    Semantic similarity: Salton & Buckley (1988) <doi:10.1016/0306-4573(88)90021-0>;
    Mikolov et al. (2013) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1301.3781>;
    Pennington et al. (2014) <doi:10.3115/v1/D14-1162>;
    Structural and stylistic analysis: Graesser et al. (2004) <doi:10.1075/target.21131.ryu>;
    Sentiment analysis: Rinker (2019) <https://github.com/trinker/sentimentr>.

Convert BCD (raw bytes) to decimal numbers and vice versa. BCD format is used to preserve decimals exactly, as opposed to the binary rounding errors inherent in "numeric" or "floating-point" formats.

Calculate the theoretical value of convertible bonds by given parameters, including B-S theory and Monte Carlo method.

Gene Symbols or Ensembl Gene IDs are converted using the Bimap interface in 'AnnotationDbi' in convertId2() but
    that function is only provided as fallback mechanism for the most common use cases in data analysis. The main function
    in the package is convert.bm() which queries BioMart using the full capacity of the API provided through the
    'biomaRt' package. Presets and defaults are provided for convenience but all "marts", "filters" and "attributes"
    can be set by the user. Function convert.alias() converts Gene Symbols to Aliases and vice versa and function likely_symbol()
    attempts to determine the most likely current Gene Symbol.