Provides functions to access data from public RESTful APIs including 'Nager.Date', 
    'World Bank API', and 'REST Countries API', retrieving real-time or historical data 
    related to China, such as holidays, economic indicators, and international demographic 
    and geopolitical indicators. Additionally, the package includes one of the largest 
    curated collections of open datasets focused on China and Hong Kong, covering topics 
    such as air quality, demographics, input-output tables, epidemiology, political 
    structure, names, and social indicators. The package supports reproducible research 
    and teaching by integrating reliable international APIs and structured datasets from 
    public, academic, and government sources.
    For more information on the APIs, see: 
    'Nager.Date' <https://date.nager.at/Api>, 
    'World Bank API' <https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889392>, 
    and 'REST Countries API' <https://restcountries.com/>.

A database of Chinese surnames and given names (1930-2008).
    This database contains nationwide frequency statistics of
    1,806 Chinese surnames and 2,614 Chinese characters used in given names,
    covering about 1.2 billion Han Chinese population
    (96.8 percent of the Han Chinese household-registered population
    born from 1930 to 2008 and still alive in 2008).
    This package also contains a function for computing multiple indices of
    Chinese surnames and given names for social science research (e.g.,
    name uniqueness, name gender, name valence, and name warmth/competence).
    Details are provided at
    <https://psychbruce.github.io/ChineseNames/>.

A collection of functions to pre-process amplification curve data from polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or isothermal amplification reactions. Contains functions to normalize and baseline amplification curves, to detect both the start and end of an amplification reaction, several smoothers (e.g., LOWESS, moving average, cubic splines, Savitzky-Golay), a function to detect false positive amplification reactions and a function to determine the amplification efficiency. Quantification point (Cq) methods include the first (FDM) and second approximate derivative maximum (SDM) methods (calculated by a 5-point-stencil) and the cycle threshold method. Data sets of experimental nucleic acid amplification systems ('VideoScan HCU', capillary convective PCR (ccPCR)) and commercial systems are included. Amplification curves were generated by helicase dependent amplification (HDA), ccPCR or PCR. As detection system intercalating dyes (EvaGreen, SYBR Green) and hydrolysis probes (TaqMan) were used. For more information see: Roediger et al. (2015) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv205>.