R packages - Jan 2018 - New package IndexNumR: A package for computation of index numbers

Hello useRs,

A new package, IndexNumR, has been released on CRAN.

IndexNumR provides a set of functions for computing various bilateral and
multilateral indices. It is designed to compute price or quantity indices over
time. Bilateral indices include Laspeyres, Paasche, Fisher, Tornqvist,
Sato-Vartia, Walsh and CES, as well as elementary indices Dutot, Carli, Harmonic
mean, CSWD and Jevons. All of these bilateral indices can be computed as
period-on-period, fixed-base or chained.

Multilateral indices can be computed in the time series context using the GEKS
methodology, and updating is provided via the window, movement or mean splice
methods. The GEKS method is computed using either the Fisher or Tornqvist
superlative index number methods.

The package also provides functions to compute measures of dissimilarity between
time periods, which can be used to choose the linking period for chained
indices.

For more information, see?https://cran.r-project.org/package=IndexNumR.?

Detailed information is contained in the package vignette
at?https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/IndexNumR/vignettes/indexnumr.html.

Issues and suggestions are welcome, and can be logged at the package Github
repository https://github.com/grahamjwhite/IndexNumR.

Kind regards,?
Graham White
g.white at unswalumni.com

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