[R] need help on R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Kamala Thomas wrote:

> I am working on a modeling project for PMI-Australia and interested in
> using R, especially POLYMARS or PLYCLASS. I use SAS /PC on WINDOWS for
> the statistical analyses including Modeling. I got R downloaded to the
> system but can't figure out how to interface with SAS so that I could
> use SAS datasets already in place.

Please read the `R Data Import/Export' manual.

> Also I could not find POLYMARS on the library packages. I need to know
> which library has POLYMARS in it.

Unlike SAS, R does not SHOUT all the time.

Function polymars is in package 'polspline', as is polyclass, both thanks 
to Dr Kooperberg.

> Could you please help me with these issues?.
>
> I got your e-mail address from 'Other Resources' section and if I am not
> addressing the correct person could you please forward this to the right
> address and let me know?.

This is a list not a person, and it has a posting guide:

> PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

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