The goal of orbs is to handle cyclical/harmonic and rhythmic data. The
major functionality is to evaluate phasic data using harmonic
regressions. It provides support for the basic regression directly, but
also implements a tidymodels syntax to be
called through parsnip.
Currently, this software has been written in a previous package that was
published on CRAN called
card. However, due to a
series of expansions in the software and design choices, that package is
being split into two parts. The first deals with cardiovascular data,
and this package will instead focus on the rhythm analyses. There will
be due notice on the software deprecation.
Naming things is hard, and this name is partially an acronym (Cyclical and Rhythm Based Statistics - yes, the C looks like an O). It also stems from the Latin word orbita which means a “wheel track, beaten path, rut, course” or from the similar word horbi which means “turning thing”. It also phonetically resembles the symbol ouroboros, the snake that bites its own tail.
Once it is available, you can install the released version of orbs
from CRAN with:
#install.packages("orbs")And the development version from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("asshah4/orbs")