>>>>> "LV" == Luc Villandre <villa...@dms.umontreal.ca>
>>>>> on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:42:34 -0400 writes:
LV> Hi,
LV> Pretty hard to say. It really depends on what you want to.
LV> MASS, nlme, lme4 and Hmisc are packages I use on a daily basis.
Note that MASS is part of the VR bundle, and that and nlme are
already formally 'Recommended' and hence part of every R installation.
The same applies to 'boot' as David (below) recommends
"a bootstrap package".
LV> I guess you could also ask for those.
LV> 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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