[R] Recommended packages for a statistician

[Luc Villandre]

Hi,

Pretty hard to say. It really depends on what you want to.

MASS, nlme, lme4 and Hmisc are packages I use on a daily basis.

I guess you could also ask for those.

David Scott wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Eamonn O'Brien wrote:
>
>> The company I work for require users to request what packages they 
>> want from
>> the IT department (user cannot download themselves). I intend to request
>> installation of the latest version of R plus the 23 Cran task views. 
>> As a
>> statistician what are the recommended packages or packages that
>> statisticians using R recommend to install. I have started a new 
>> position
>> and want to (greedily) get everything that I may or may not use as I 
>> want to
>> avoid multiple requests to our IT dept.
>> Thanks
>>
>
>
> I haven't seen a response, so I will make a start.
>
> It all depends on the area you are in, and the sort of work you do. If 
> you are in finance, you will likely require different packages than if 
> you are in biostat or whatever. There are no clues in your email, not 
> even an informative address or signature.
>
> There are a few general packages that you might consider though: Frank 
> Harrell's packages; ggplot2 for graphics; a bootstrap package; 
> depending on the users maybe a gui package such as Rcmdr ...
> There are around 2000 packages now I believe.
>
>
> David Scott 
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