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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