[R] about Cox-Box transformation

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Stefano Sofia wrote:

> Dear R-users,
> I am using R version 1.8.0-1 under Suse 8.2.

That is *really* old.

> I need to use the boxcox command because I want to apply a Cox-Box
> transformation to a vector of rainfall values.
> Within the libraries, the MASS library is present, but I don't know
> whether this means that is automatically installed or not.
> The command doesn't work. What do I have to do in order to make it
> working? Is just a problem of installation or simply of recalling the
> right command?

library(MASS), I presume.

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