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Margot TollefsonR Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4405-0_6

6. Packaged Functions

Margot Tollefson1 
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Stratford, IA, USA
 

R has over 10,000 packages, most of which contain functions. Functions are at the heart of R and provide R with R’s great versatility. Functions are R objects, and they are of both mode and class function. Packaged functions are functions that have been created as a part of an R package. On the computer, packages are stored in libraries and are installed to be in a library.

The Libraries

When R is initially installed, currently, the packages base, boot, class, cluster, codetools, compiler, datasets, foreign, graphics, grDevices, grid, KernSmooth, lattice, MASS, Matrix, methods,

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