What documentation exists for R?

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Packages in ‘/home/me/lib/R’:
mystuff My own R functions, nicely packaged but not documented
Packages in ‘/usr/local/lib/R/library’:
KernSmooth Functions for kernel smoothing for Wand & Jones (1995)
MASS Main Package of Venables and Ripley’s MASS
base The R Base package
boot Bootstrap R (S-Plus) Functions (Canty)
class Functions for Classification
cluster Functions for clustering (by Rousseeuw et al.)
datasets The R datasets Package
foreign Read data stored by Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS, Stata, ...
grDevices The R Graphics Devices and Support for Colours and Fonts
graphics The R Graphics Package
grid The Grid Graphics Package
lattice Lattice Graphics
methods Formal Methods and Classes
mgcv GAMs with GCV smoothness estimation and GAMMs by REML/PQ
nlme Linear and nonlinear mixed effects models
nnet Feed-forward Neural Networks and Multinomial Log-Linear
Models
rpart Recursive partitioning
spatial Functions for Kriging and Point Pattern Analysis
splines Regression Spline Functions and Classes
stats The R Stats Package
stats4 Statistical functions using S4 classes
survival Survival analysis, including penalised likelihood
tcltk Tcl/Tk Interface
tools Tools for Package Development
utils The R Utils Package
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You can “load” the installed package pkg by
library(pkg)
You can then find out which functions it provides by typing one of
library(help = pkg)
help(package = pkg)
You can unload the loaded package pkg by
detach("package:pkg")
5.4 How can add-on packages be removed?
Use
$ R CMD REMOVE pkg_1 ... pkg_n
to remove the packages pkg 1, . . ., pkg n from the library tree rooted at the first directory
given in R_LIBS if this is set and non-null, and from the default library otherwise. (Versions
of R prior to 1.3.0 removed from the default library by default.)
To remove from library lib, do
$ R CMD REMOVE -l lib pkg_1 ... pkg_n