Rho is used to test the generalization of inter rater reliability
    (IRR) statistics. Calculating rho starts by generating a large number of
    simulated, fully-coded data sets: a sizable collection of hypothetical
    populations, all of which have a kappa value below a given threshold -- which
    indicates unacceptable agreement. Then kappa is calculated on a sample from
    each of those sets in the collection to see if it is equal to or higher than
    the kappa in then real sample. If less than five percent of the distribution
    of samples from the simulated data sets is greater than actual observed kappa,
    the null hypothesis is rejected and one can conclude that if the two raters had
    coded the rest of the data, we would have acceptable agreement (kappa above the
    threshold).

Higher-order spectra or polyspectra of time series, such as bispectrum and bicoherence, have been investigated in abundant literature and applied to problems of signal detection in a wide range of fields. This package aims to provide a simple API to estimate and analyze them. The current implementation is based on Brillinger and Irizarry (1998) <doi:10.1016/S0165-1684(97)00217-X> for estimating bispectrum or bicoherence, Lii and Helland (1981) <doi:10.1145/355958.355961> for cross-bispectrum, and Kim and Powers (1979) <doi:10.1109/TPS.1979.4317207> for cross-bicoherence.

Provides apply-style functions using the Message Passing Interface ('MPI')
  to improve the High-Performance Computing ('HPC') environment in R.
  The package supports long vectors and efficient handling of large datasets for
  MPI-based parallel computations.

Microbenchmarks for determining the run time
  performance of aspects of the R programming environment and packages
  relevant to high-performance computation.  The benchmarks are divided into
  three categories: dense matrix linear algebra kernels, sparse matrix linear
  algebra kernels, and machine learning functionality.

Control the number of threads on 'BLAS' (Aka 'GotoBLAS', 'OpenBLAS', 'ACML', 'BLIS' and 'MKL').
  And possible to control the number of threads in 'OpenMP'.
  Get a number of logical cores and physical cores if feasible.