Which packages you need is crucially dependent on what you want to do. There is not likely a general answer. Googling for CRAN Task Views should get you to package views which list packages applicable to different areas.
Prior to installing any R packages yourself library() will list the recommended packages which are the ones that ship with R itself. On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Carl Witthoft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm relatively new to R, so I don't know the full list of base (or popular > add-on packages) functions and tools available. For example, I tripped > across mention of rle() in a message about some other problem. rle() turned > out to be a handy shortcut to splitting some of my data by magnitude > (vaguely like a sequence-based histogram). > So I thought I'd ask: what small, or obscure, tools and functions in R do > you find handy or 'cool' to use in your work? > > Thanks > Carl > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
