Performs analysis of categorical-variable with missing values. Implements methods from Schafer, JL, Analysis of Incomplete Multivariate Data, Chapman and Hall.

Unifying an inconsistently coded categorical variable between two different time points in accordance with a mapping table. 
    The main rule is to replicate the observation if it could be assigned to a few categories. 
    Then using frequencies or statistical methods to approximate the probabilities of being assigned to each of them. 
    This procedure was invented and implemented in the paper by Nasinski, Majchrowska, and Broniatowska (2020) <doi:10.24425/cejeme.2020.134747>.

Package contains functions for analyzing check-all-that-apply (CATA) data from consumer and sensory tests. Cochran's Q test, McNemar's test, and Penalty-Lift analysis are provided; for details, see Meyners, Castura & Carr (2013) <doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.06.010>. Cluster analysis can be performed using b-cluster analysis, then evaluated using various measures; for details, see Castura, Meyners, Varela & Næs (2022) <doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2022.104564>. Methods are adapted to cluster consumers based on their product-related hedonic responses; for details, see Castura, Meyners, Pohjanheimo, Varela & Næs (2023) <doi:10.1111/joss.12860>.

Gain access to the 'Spark Catalog' API making use of the 'sparklyr' API. 'Catalog' <https://spark.apache.org/docs/2.4.3/api/java/org/apache/spark/sql/catalog/Catalog.html> is the interface for managing a metastore (aka metadata catalog) of relational entities (e.g. database(s), tables, functions, table columns and temporary views).

Access public spatial data available under the 'INSPIRE'
    directive. Tools for downloading references and addresses of
    properties, as well as map images.

Performs classification and variable selection on high-dimensional tensors (multi-dimensional arrays) after adjusting for additional covariates (scalar or vectors) as CATCH model in Pan, Mai and Zhang (2018) <arXiv:1805.04421>. The low-dimensional covariates and the high-dimensional tensors are jointly modeled to predict a categorical outcome in a multi-class discriminant analysis setting. The Covariate-Adjusted Tensor Classification in High-dimensions (CATCH) model is fitted in two steps: (1) adjust for the covariates within each class; and (2) penalized estimation with the adjusted tensor using a cyclic block coordinate descent algorithm. The package can provide a solution path for tuning parameter in the penalized estimation step. Special case of the CATCH model includes linear discriminant analysis model and matrix (or tensor) discriminant analysis without covariates.