Utilities for the Simulation and Analysis of Random Fields (RandomFieldsUtils)
Various utilities are provided that might be used in spatial statistics and elsewhere. It delivers a method for solving linear equations that checks the sparsity of the matrix before any algorithm is used. Furthermore, it includes the Struve functions.

External Jars Required for Package ‘rkafka’ (rkafkajars)
The ‘rkafkajars’ package collects all the external jars required for the ‘rkafka’ package.

Using Apache ‘Kafka’ Messaging Queue Through ‘R’ (rkafka)
Apache ‘Kafka’ is an open-source message broker project developed by the Apache Software Foundation which can be thought of as a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service.At a high level, producers send messages over the network to the ‘Kafka’ cluster which in turn serves them up to consumers.See for more information.Functions included in this package enable:1.Creating ‘Kafka’ producer 2.Writing messages to a topic 3.Closing ‘Kafka’ producer 4.Creating ‘Kafka’ consumer 5.Reading messages from a topic 6.Closing ‘Kafka’ consumer. The jars required for this package are included in a separate package ‘rkafkajars’.Thanks to Mu Sigma for their continued support throughout the development of the package.