pphotspot

https://cran.r-project.org/package=pphotspot

The R package pphotspot provides implements the detection of hotspots on a linear network as proposed by Mrkvička et al. (2025). The package utilizes the R package GET(see Myllymäki and Mrkvička, 2024).

The development version

The github repository holds a copy of the current development version of the contributed R package pphotspot.

This development version is as or more recent than the official release of GET on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) at https://cran.r-project.org/package=GET

Where is the official release?

For the most recent official release of pphotspot, see https://cran.r-project.org/package=pphotspot

Installation

Installing the official release

To install the official release of pphotspot from CRAN, start R and type

install.packages('pphotspot')

Installing the development version

The easiest way to install the pphotspot library from github is through the remotes package. Start R and type:

require(remotes)
install_github('myllym/pphotspot')

If you do not have the R library remotes installed, install it first by running

install.packages("remotes")

After installation, in order to start using pphotspot, load it to R and see the main help page, which describes the functions of the library:

require(pphotspot)
help('pphotspot-package')

If you want to have also vignettes working, you should also install packages from the 'suggests' field, have MiKTeX or tinytex on your computer, and install the library with

install_github('myllym/pphotspot', build_vignettes = TRUE)

Vignettes

The package contains a vignette. The vignette shows the package usage. It is available by starting R and typing

library("pphotspot")
vignette("HotSpots")

The vignette is also available at the package webpage https://cran.r-project.org/package=pphotspot

Branches

Currently the is only the main branch called master.

References

To cite GET in publications use

Mrkvička, T., Kraft, S., Blažek, V., Myllymäki, M., Konopa, M. (2025) Where are the Real Hotspots of Road Crashes? An Innovative Approach to the Road Crash Hotspot Detection by Filtering Out the Effect of Covariates. Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5337003

Myllymäki, M. and Mrkvička, T. (2024). GET: Global envelopes in R. Journal of Statistical Software 111(3), 1-40. doi: 10.18637/jss.v111.i03 https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v111.i03