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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).

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