Assume that a temporal process is composed of contiguous segments with differing slopes and replicated noise-corrupted time series measurements are observed. The unknown mean of the data generating process is modelled as a piecewise linear function of time with an unknown number of change-points. The package infers the joint posterior distribution of the number and position of change-points as well as the unknown mean parameters per time-series by MCMC sampling. A-priori, the proposed model uses an overfitting number of mean parameters but, conditionally on a set of change-points, only a subset of them influences the likelihood. An exponentially decreasing prior distribution on the number of change-points gives rise to a posterior distribution concentrating on sparse representations of the underlying sequence, but also available is the Poisson distribution. See Papastamoulis et al (2017) <arXiv:1709.06111> for a detailed presentation of the method.

'BEAST2' (<https://www.beast2.org>) is a widely used
    Bayesian phylogenetic tool, that uses DNA/RNA/protein data
    and many model priors to create a posterior of jointly estimated 
    phylogenies and parameters.
    'BEAST2' is a command-line tool.
    This package provides a way to call 'BEAST2' 
    from an 'R' function call.

Provides JAR to perform Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) inference using
    the popular Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis by Sampling Trees 'BEAST' software library
    of Suchard et al (2018) <doi:10.1093/ve/vey016>. 'BEAST' supports auto-tuning
    Metropolis-Hastings, slice, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and Sequential Monte Carlo
    sampling for a large variety of composable standard and phylogenetic statistical
    models using high performance computing.  By placing the 'BEAST' JAR in this package,
    we offer an efficient distribution system for 'BEAST' use by other R packages using
    CRAN.

'BEAST2' (<https://www.beast2.org>) is a widely used
  Bayesian phylogenetic tool, that uses DNA/RNA/protein data
  and many model priors to create a posterior of jointly estimated 
  phylogenies and parameters.
  'BEAUti 2' (which is part of 'BEAST2') is a GUI tool 
  that allows users to specify the many possible setups
  and generates the XML file 'BEAST2' needs to run.
  This package provides a way to create 'BEAST2' input
  files without active user input, but using
  R function calls instead.