[R] 140 packages in R Commander!!

[John Fox]

Dear Ajay,

This is a consequence of installing the dependencies (including "suggested"
packages, etc.) of the Rcmdr package, their dependencies, and so on
recursively. The alternative would be for the Rcmdr package to specify its
direct dependencies via "depends" rather than "suggests," but then these
dependencies would be loaded whenever the Rcmdr is loaded. 

If you have a better idea, I'm certainly open to it, since many, probably
most, of the packages that get installed aren't really needed by the Rcmdr
or by the packages on which it directly depends. The whole business takes
about 10 minutes on my not-all-that-fast Internet connection and occupies
about 250 MB (considerably less than 10 US cents at today's hard-disk
prices), which doesn't seem terrible to me.

Best,
 John

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John Fox
Senator William McMaster 
  Professor of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
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> Behalf Of Ajay Ohri
> Sent: October-24-10 12:47 PM
> To: R-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] 140 packages in R Commander!!
> 
> Dear List
> 
> I just downloaded and installed R 2.12.0 and then installed R Commander .
> 
> First it got RCmdr and Car, and then suggested for other packages for
> utilizing the full functionality- I clicked yes!
> 
> I got 140 packages installed!!! Cran Mirror was UCLA...
> 
> Here is the list.
> 
> Is this intentional- I can see some packages like snow and multicore which
> are desirable but quite optional.(see list below)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ajay
> 
>      'slam' 'fBasics' 'bitops' 'Rglpk' 'snowFT' 'rlecuyer' 'rsprng' 'nws'
> 'tweedie' 'gtools' 'gdata' 'caTools' 'Ecdat' 'ergm' 'latentnet'
'degreenet'
> 'shapes' 'snow' 'RColorBrewer' 'statmod' 'cubature' 'kinship' 'gam'
> 'tripack' 'akima' 'logspline' 'gplots' 'maxLik' 'miscTools' 'sem' 'rgdal'
> 'network' 'numDeriv' 'statnet' 'rgenoud' 'hexbin' 'ellipse' 'gclus'
> 'mlbench' 'randomForest' 'SparseM' 'Formula' 'ineq' 'mlogit' 'np' 'plm'
> 'pscl' 'quantreg' 'ROCR' 'sampleSelection' 'scatterplot3d' 'systemfit'
> 'truncreg' 'urca' 'oz' 'fUtilities' 'fEcofin' 'RUnit' 'quadprog'
'iterators'
> 'locfit' 'maps' 'rcom' 'rscproxy' 'sp' 'VGAM' 'MCMCpack' 'sna' 'gee'
> 'anchors' 'survey' 'ape' 'flexmix' 'rmeta' 'mlmRev' 'MEMSS' 'coda' 'party'
> 'ipred' 'modeltools' 'e1071' 'AER' 'bdsmatrix' 'DAAG' 'fCalendar'
'fSeries'
> 'fts' 'its' 'timeDate' 'timeSeries' 'tis' 'tseries' 'xts' 'foreach' 'TSA'
> 'RSQLite' 'tkrplot' 'sgeostat' 'mapproj' 'tcltk2' 'R2wd' 'png' 'tree'
'VIM'
> 'mitools' 'Zelig' 'HSAUR' 'mvtnorm' 'lme4' 'robustbase' 'mboost' 'coin'
> 'xtable' 'sandwich' 'coxme' 'zoo' 'strucchange' 'dynlm' 'biglm' 'chron'
> 'acepack' 'TeachingDemos' 'Design' 'mice' 'subselect' 'kernlab' 'vcd'
'rgl'
> 'relimp' 'multcomp' 'lmtest' 'leaps' 'Hmisc' 'effects' 'colorspace'
> 'aplpack' 'abind' 'RODBC' car Rcmdr
> 
> Websites-
> http://decisionstats.com
> http://dudeofdata.com
> 
> 
> Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Marcelo Lima <mlimagb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I generated a covariance matrix and visualized as a 2D contour plot
> > (x,y, covariance matrix), I would like to extract from the matrix the
> > values ( in x and y) that auto-correlate which I will plot as an
> > normal (x,y(being the values that auto-corelate to a certain x and y
> > values in my original matrix). Any suggestions?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Marcelo
> >
> > --
> > Marcelo Andrade de Lima
> > UNIFESP - Universidade Federal de Sco Paulo Departamento de Bioqummica
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> > mlima at unifesp.br
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