Package: SGP
Type: Package
Title: An R Package for the Calculation and Visualization of Student
Growth Percentiles & Percentile Growth Trajectories.
Version: 1.1-0.0
Date: 2013-4-12
Authors@R: c(person("Damian", "Betebenner",
email="dbetebenner@nciea.org", role=c("aut", "cre")),
person("Adam", "Van Iwaarden",
email="vaniwaarden@colorado.edu", role="aut"), person("Ben",
"Domingue", email="ben.domingue@gmail.com", role="aut"))
Author: Damian W. Betebenner <dbetebenner@nciea.org>, Adam Van Iwaarden
<vaniwaarden@colorado.edu>, Ben Domingue
<ben.domingue@gmail.com>, and Yi Shang <shangyi@Gmail.com> with
contributions from Dr. Jonathan Weeks, Dr. Yi Shang, John
Stewart, Dr. Jinnie Choi, Dr. Xin Wei, and Hi Shin Shim. With
special thanks to State Department of Education analysts: Dr.
Xiaoyuan Tan (Arizona), Dr. Carrie Giovannini (Arizona), Dr.
Sarah Polasky (Arizona), Rebecca Gau (Arizona), Dr. Bill Bonk
(Colorado), Marie Huchton (Colorado), Dr. Allison Timberlake
(Georgia), Dr. Melissa Fincher (Georgia), Kiran Athota
(Georgia), Travis Allen (Georgia), Glenn Hirata (Hawaii), Glenn
Nochi (Hawaii), Joshua Lee (Hawaii), Ayaka Nukui (Idaho), Dr.
Carissa Miller (Idaho), Dr. Wes Bruce (Indiana), Robert
Hochsegang (Indiana), Tony Moss (Kansas), Dr. Xuewen Sheng
(Kansas), Dr. Kathy Flanagan (Massachusetts), Robert Lee
(Massachusetts), Joe DeCastra (Mississippi), Ken Thompson
(Mississippi), Soo Yeon Cho (Missouri), Dr. Jeff Halsell
(Nevada), Dr. Selcuk Ozdemir (Nevada), Roger Silva (Nevada),
Deb Wiswell (New Hampshire), Katya Levitan-Reiner (New Haven
Public Schools), Catherine McCaslin (New Haven Public Schools),
Joshua Marland (New York), W Joshua Rew (Oregon), Jason Becker
(Rhode Island), Dr. Jessica Brown (Rhode Island), Ana
Karantonis (Rhode Island), Dr. Deborah Jonas (Virginia), Juan
D'Brot (West Virginia), Dr. Deb Came (Washington), Krissy
Johnson (Washington), Nate Hixson (West Virginia), Daniel Bush
(Wisconsin), Justin Meyer (Wisconsin), Joseph Newton
(Wisconsin), Dr. Philip Olsen (Wisconsin), Nick Stroud
(Wisconsin), Brendan Houng (University of Melbourne,
Australia).
Maintainer: Damian W. Betebenner <dbetebenner@nciea.org>
Depends: R (>= 2.15), SGPdata (>= 7.0-0), methods
Suggests: randomNames (>= 0.0-5), parallel
Imports: Cairo, colorspace, data.table (>= 1.8.6), doParallel, foreach,
grid, gridBase, iterators, plyr, quantreg, reshape2, RSQLite,
sn, SparseM, splines
Description: Functions to calculate student growth percentiles and
percentile growth projections/trajectories for students using
large scale, longitudinal assessment data.  Functions use
quantile regression to estimate the conditional density
associated with each student's achievement history.  Percentile
growth projections/trajectories are calculated using the
coefficient matrices derived from the quantile regression
analyses and specify what percentile growth is required for
students to reach future achievement targets.
SystemRequirements: (PDF)LaTeX (http://www.latex-project.org/) with
'pdfpages' package for studentGrowthPlot option in visualizeSGP
to bind together student growth plots into school catalogs.
URL: https://github.com/SchoolView/SGP,
http://schoolview.github.com/SGP/,
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SGP/
LazyData: Yes
LazyDataCompression: xz
License: CC BY-SA 3.0 US + file LICENSE
ByteCompile: TRUE
Packaged: 2013-04-12 11:02:43 UTC; root
NeedsCompilation: no
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2013-04-12 16:48:16