R packages

Target encoding is commonly used to map categorical variables to numeric with the objective of facilitating exploratory data analysis and machine learning modeling. This post covers the basics of this method, and explains how and when to use it.

We introduce distantia (v1.0.1), an R package providing general toolset to quantify dissimilarity between ecological time‐series, independently of their regularity and number of samples. The functions in distantia provide the means to compute dissimilarity scores by time and by shape and assess their significance, evaluate the partial contribution of each variable to dissimilarity, and align or combine sequences by similarity.