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 65<br />
Rstem Interface to Snowball implementation of Porter’s word stemming algorithm.<br />
RwxWidgets<br />
Facilities to program GUIs using wxWidgets in R.<br />
Ryacas R interface to yacas.<br />
SASXML Example <strong>for</strong> reading XML files in SAS 8.2 manner.<br />
SJava An interface from R to Java to create and call Java objects and methods.<br />
SLanguage<br />
Functions and C support utilities to support S language programming that can<br />
work in both R and S-Plus.<br />
SNetscape Plugin <strong>for</strong> Netscape and JavaScript.<br />
SSOAP A client interface to SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) servers from within<br />
S.<br />
SWinRegistry<br />
Provides access from within R to read and write the Windows registry.<br />
SWinTypeLibs<br />
Provides ways to extract type in<strong>for</strong>mation from type libraries and/or DCOM<br />
objects that describes the methods, properties, etc., of an interface.<br />
SXalan Process XML documents using XSL functions implemented in R and dynamically<br />
substituting output from R.<br />
Slcc Parses C source code, allowing one to analyze and automatically generate interfaces<br />
from S to that code, including the table of S-accessible native symbols,<br />
parameter count and type in<strong>for</strong>mation, S constructors from C objects, call<br />
graphs, etc.<br />
Sxslt An extension module <strong>for</strong> libxslt, the XML-XSL document translator, that allows<br />
XSL functions to be implemented via R functions.<br />
XML Tools <strong>for</strong> reading XML documents and DTDs.<br />
5.1.4 Add-on packages from Bioconductor<br />
The Bioconductor Project produces an open source software framework that will<br />
assist biologists and statisticians working in bioin<strong>for</strong>matics, with primary emphasis on<br />
inference using DNA microarrays. A CRAN style R package repository is available via<br />
http://www.bioconductor.org/.<br />
The following R packages are contained in the current release of Bioconductor, with<br />
more packages under development.<br />
AnnBuilder<br />
Assemble and process genomic annotation data, from databases such as Gen-<br />
Bank, the Gene Ontology Consortium, LocusLink, UniGene, the UCSC Human<br />
Genome Project.<br />
Biobase Object-oriented representation and manipulation of genomic data (S4 class<br />
structure).