The R Book

Libraries in R

To use one of the libraries (listed in Table 1.1), simply type the library function with the name of the library in brackets. Thus, to load the spatial library type

library(spatial)

Table 1.1. Libraries used in this book that come supplied as part of the base package of R.

lattice	lattice graphics for panel plots or trellis graphs
MASS	package associated with Venables and Ripley's book entitled Modern Applied Statistics using S-PLUS
mgcv	generalized additive models
nlme	mixed-effects models (both linear and non-linear)
nnet	feed-forward neural networks and multinomial log-linear models
spatial	functions for kriging and point pattern analysis
survival	survival analysis, including penalised likelihood