Dear R users, The TraMineR package for mining, describing and visualizing sequences of states or events, and more generally discrete sequential data has been updated to version 1.2. Its primary aim is the analysis of biographical longitudinal data in the social sciences, such as data describing careers or family trajectories. Most of its features apply however also to non temporal data such as text or DNA sequences for instance. These are * Handling of longitudinal data and conversion between various sequence formats * Plotting sequences (density plot, frequency plot, index plot and more) * Centro-type and heterogeneity measure of a set of sequences * Individual longitudinal characteristics of sequences (length, time in each state, longitudinal entropy, turbulence and more) * Sequence transversal characteristics by age point (transversal state distribution, transversal entropy, modal state) * Other aggregated characteristics (transition rates, average duration in each state, sequence frequency) * Dissimilarities between pairs of sequences using several metric (Optimal matching, longest common prefix, longest common postfix, longest common subsequence) * ANOVA-like analysis of sequences and tree structured ANOVA from dissimilarities * Extracting frequent event subsequences * Identifying most discriminating event subsequences More information about TraMineR can be found here: http://mephisto.unige.ch/traminer/ Cheers, The TraMineR team. _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages