Provides simple bindings to Unidata's udunits library.

Enables the user to calculate Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected 
    Shortfall (ES) by means of various parametric and semiparametric 
    GARCH-type models. For the latter the estimation of the nonparametric scale
    function is carried out by means of a data-driven smoothing approach. Model
    quality, in terms of forecasting VaR and ES, can be assessed by means of 
    various backtesting methods such as the traffic light test for VaR and a 
    newly developed traffic light test for ES. The approaches implemented in 
    this package are described in e.g. Feng Y., Beran J., Letmathe S. and 
    Ghosh S. (2020) <https://ideas.repec.org/p/pdn/ciepap/137.html> as well as 
    Letmathe S., Feng Y. and Uhde A. (2021) 
    <https://ideas.repec.org/p/pdn/ciepap/141.html>.

This is a new version of the 'userfriendlyscience' package,
    which has grown a bit unwieldy. Therefore, distinct functionalities
    are being 'consciously uncoupled' into different packages. This package
    contains the general-purpose tools and utilities (see the
    'behaviorchange' package, the 'rosetta' package, and the
    soon-to-be-released 'scd' package for other functionality), and
    is the most direct 'successor' of the original 'userfriendlyscience' package.
    For example, this package contains a number of basic functions to create
    higher level plots, such as diamond plots, to easily plot sampling
    distributions, to generate confidence intervals, to plan study sample sizes
    for confidence intervals, and to do some basic operations such as
    (dis)attenuate effect size estimates.

An R API providing easy access to a relational database with macroeconomic, 
             financial and development related time series data for Uganda. 
             Overall more than 5000 series at varying frequency (daily, monthly, 
             quarterly, annual in fiscal or calendar years) can be accessed through 
             the API. The data is provided by the Bank of Uganda, 
             the Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development,
             the IMF and the World Bank. The database is being updated once a month.