What documentation exists for R?
What documentation exists for R?
What documentation exists for R?
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Chapter 5: R Add-On Packages 63<br />
5.1.3 Add-on packages from Omegahat<br />
The Omegahat Project <strong>for</strong> Statistical Computing provides a variety of open-source software<br />
<strong>for</strong> statistical applications, with special emphasis on web-based software, Java, the Java<br />
virtual machine, and distributed computing. A CRAN style R package repository is available<br />
via http://www.omegahat.org/R/.<br />
Currently, there are the following packages.<br />
Aspell An interface to facilities in the aspell library.<br />
CGIwithR Facilities <strong>for</strong> the use of R to write CGI scripts.<br />
CORBA Dynamic CORBA client/server facilities <strong>for</strong> R. Connects to other CORBAaware<br />
applications developed in arbitrary languages, on different machines and<br />
allows R functionality to be exported in the same way to other applications.<br />
Combinations<br />
Compute the combinations of choosing r items from n elements.<br />
IDocs Infrastructure <strong>for</strong> interactive documents.<br />
OOP OOP style classes and methods <strong>for</strong> R and S-Plus. Object references and classbased<br />
method definition are supported in the style of languages such as Java<br />
and C++.<br />
RCurl Allows one to compose HTTP requests to fetch URIs, post <strong>for</strong>ms, etc., and<br />
process the results returned by the Web server.<br />
RDCOMClient<br />
Provides dynamic client-side access to (D)COM applications from within R.<br />
RDCOMEvents<br />
Provides facilities to use R functions and objects as handlers <strong>for</strong> DCOM events.<br />
RDCOMServer<br />
Facilities <strong>for</strong> exporting S objects and functions as COM objects.<br />
REmbeddedPostgres<br />
Allows R functions and objects to be used to implement SQL functions —<br />
per-record, aggregate and trigger functions.<br />
REventLoop<br />
An abstract event loop mechanism that is toolkit independent and can be used<br />
to to replace the R event loop.<br />
Rexif Extract meta-in<strong>for</strong>mation from JPEG files.<br />
RGdkPixbuf<br />
S language functions to access the facilities in the GdkPixbuf library <strong>for</strong> manipulating<br />
images.<br />
RGnumeric<br />
A plugin <strong>for</strong> the Gnumeric spreadsheet that allows R functions to be called<br />
from cells within the sheet, automatic recalculation, etc.<br />
RGtk Facilities in the S language <strong>for</strong> programming graphical interfaces using Gtk, the<br />
Gnome GUI toolkit.