[R] Where is the splines package

[David Winsemius]

On May 2, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Shige Song wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I noticed that the "splines" package is no longer available on CRAN.
> Has it been replaced by something else? is it still available in some
> other locations?

I believe you will discover that splines is part of the standard  
install bundle. Try this at your consoles:

help(package=splines)

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R-Add_002dOn-Packages

... but I do not know when that began, but this document

https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/OONEWS

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CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.90.0
  NEW FEATURES
  o		packages splines (for regression smoothing splines or  
interpolating splines) and nls (nonlinear least squares) are part of  
the base distribution.
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,,, suggests it was effectively "forever" as far as I am concerned.)

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David Winsemius, MD
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