Package: APCtools
Title: Routines for Descriptive and Model-Based APC Analysis
Version: 1.0.8
Authors@R: c(
    person(given = "Alexander",  family = "Bauer",   email = "baueralexander@posteo.de", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3495-5131")),
    person(given = "Maximilian", family = "Weigert", role = "aut", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4400-134X")),
    person(given = "Hawre",      family = "Jalal",   email = "hjalal@uottawa.ca", role = "aut", comment=c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8224-6834")))
Maintainer: Alexander Bauer <baueralexander@posteo.de>
Description: Age-Period-Cohort (APC) analyses are used to differentiate
        relevant drivers for long-term developments. The 'APCtools'
        package offers visualization techniques and general routines to
        simplify the workflow of an APC analysis. Sophisticated
        functions are available both for descriptive and regression
        model-based analyses. For the former, we use density (or
        ridgeline) matrices and (hexagonally binned) heatmaps as
        innovative visualization techniques building on the concept of
        Lexis diagrams. Model-based analyses build on the separation of
        the temporal dimensions based on generalized additive models,
        where a tensor product interaction surface (usually between age
        and period) is utilized to represent the third dimension
        (usually cohort) on its diagonal. Such tensor product surfaces
        can also be estimated while accounting for further covariates
        in the regression model. See Weigert et al. (2021)
        <doi:10.1177/1354816620987198> for methodological details.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://bauer-alex.github.io/APCtools/
BugReports: https://github.com/bauer-alex/APCtools/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Imports: ggpubr, checkmate, knitr, ggplot2, colorspace, dplyr, mgcv,
        scales, tidyr, stringr
Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0), rmarkdown, covr
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Depends: R (>= 3.5)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake make libicu-dev
Repository: https://bauer-alex.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2025-06-18 19:07:27 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/bauer-alex/apctools
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 2bb83298c01049764e815823ae8316b1ae212828
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-17 10:29:43 UTC; root
Author: Alexander Bauer [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3495-5131>),
  Maximilian Weigert [aut] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4400-134X>),
  Hawre Jalal [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8224-6834>)