Package: SGP
Type: Package
Title: An R Package for the Calculation and Visualization of Student
        Growth Percentiles & Percentile Growth Trajectories.
Version: 1.0-3.0
Date: 2013-1-21
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> and Ben Domingue
        <ben.domingue@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. 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), 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 (>= 3.0-0), 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, snow, 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: 2013-01-21 11:43:54 UTC; damian
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2013-01-21 15:09:45
