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100 oldest R packages by first published date

Rank Name Title First published Maintainer
1 leaps leapsRegression Subset Selection 1997-12-10 Thomas Lumley
2 oz ozPlot the Australian Coastline and States 1998-02-25 Kurt Hornik
3 acepack acepackACE and AVAS for Selecting Multiple Regression Transformations 1998-03-25 Shawn Garbett
4 mda mdaMixture and Flexible Discriminant Analysis 1998-04-17 Trevor Hastie
5 akima akimaInterpolation of Irregularly and Regularly Spaced Data 1998-08-20 Albrecht Gebhardt
6 tripack tripackTriangulation of Irregularly Spaced Data 1998-08-20 Albrecht Gebhardt
7 pspline psplinePenalized Smoothing Splines 1998-11-25 Brian Ripley
8 logspline logsplineRoutines for Logspline Density Estimation 1998-11-25 Charles Kooperberg
9 stable stableProbability Functions and Generalized Regression Models for Stable Distributions 1998-12-09 Bruce Swihart
10 pls plsPartial Least Squares and Principal Component Regression 1999-01-11 Kristian Hovde Liland
11 quantreg quantregQuantile Regression 1999-01-11 Roger Koenker
12 mlbench mlbenchMachine Learning Benchmark Problems 1999-02-24 Friedrich Leisch
13 lmtest lmtestTesting Linear Regression Models 1999-03-15 Achim Zeileis
14 KernSmooth KernSmoothFunctions for Kernel Smoothing Supporting Wand & Jones (1995) 1999-04-08 Brian Ripley
15 gee geeGeneralized Estimation Equation Solver 1999-04-08 Brian Ripley
16 sm smSmoothing Methods for Nonparametric Regression and Density Estimation 1999-04-08 Adrian Bowman
17 tree treeClassification and Regression Trees 1999-04-08 Brian Ripley
18 boot bootBootstrap Functions (Originally by Angelo Canty for S) 1999-04-08 Brian Ripley
19 rpart rpartRecursive Partitioning and Regression Trees 1999-04-08 Beth Atkinson
20 rmutil rmutilUtilities for Nonlinear Regression and Repeated Measurements Models 1999-04-09 Bruce Swihart
21 chron chronChronological Objects which can Handle Dates and Times 1999-04-10 Kurt Hornik
22 polynom polynomA Collection of Functions to Implement a Class for Univariate Polynomial Manipulations 1999-04-12 Bill Venables
23 cluster cluster"Finding Groups in Data": Cluster Analysis Extended Rousseeuw et al. 1999-04-12 Martin Maechler
24 sgeostat sgeostatAn Object-Oriented Framework for Geostatistical Modeling in S+ 1999-04-21 Albrecht Gebhardt
25 ash ashDavid Scott"s ASH Routines 1999-04-21 Albrecht Gebhardt
26 event eventEvent History Procedures and Models 1999-04-21 Bruce Swihart
27 repeated repeatedNon-Normal Repeated Measurements Models 1999-04-21 Bruce Swihart
28 growth growthMultivariate Normal and Elliptically-Contoured Repeated Measurements Models 1999-04-21 Bruce Swihart
29 gnlm gnlmGeneralized Nonlinear Regression Models 1999-04-21 Bruce Swihart
30 cclust cclustConvex Clustering Methods and Clustering Indexes 1999-04-26 Kurt Hornik
31 princurve princurveFit a Principal Curve in Arbitrary Dimension 1999-04-26 Robrecht Cannoodt
32 date dateFunctions for Handling Dates 1999-05-03 Kurt Hornik
33 fracdiff fracdiffFractionally Differenced ARIMA aka ARFIMA(P,d,q) Models 1999-05-19 Martin Maechler
34 bindata bindataGeneration of Artificial Binary Data 1999-05-19 Friedrich Leisch
35 quadprog quadprogFunctions to Solve Quadratic Programming Problems 1999-05-27 Berwin A. Turlach
36 coda codaOutput Analysis and Diagnostics for MCMC 1999-06-04 Martyn Plummer
37 e1071 e1071Misc Functions of the Department of Statistics, Probability Theory Group (Formerly: E1071), TU Wien 1999-06-07 David Meyer
38 gss gssGeneral Smoothing Splines 1999-07-06 Chong Gu
39 tseries tseriesTime Series Analysis and Computational Finance 1999-07-09 Kurt Hornik
40 rmeta rmetaMeta-Analysis 1999-08-11 Thomas Lumley
41 wavethresh wavethreshWavelets Statistics and Transforms 1999-10-11 Guy Nason
42 NISTnls NISTnlsNonlinear least squares examples from NIST 1999-11-04 Douglas Bates
43 mclust mclustGaussian Mixture Modelling for Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation 1999-11-04 Luca Scrucca
44 norm normAnalysis of Multivariate Normal Datasets with Missing Values 1999-11-05 John Fox
45 nlme nlmeLinear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models 1999-11-23 R Core Team
46 foreign foreignRead Data Stored by "Minitab", "S", "SAS", "SPSS", "Stata", "Systat", "Weka", "dBase", ... 1999-12-17 R Core Team
47 SASmixed SASmixedData sets from "SAS System for Mixed Models" 2000-02-12 Steven Walker
48 tframe tframeTime Frame Coding Kernel 2000-04-21 Paul Gilbert
49 cfa cfaConfigural Frequency Analysis (CFA) 2000-05-13 Patrick Mair
50 ineq ineqMeasuring Inequality, Concentration, and Poverty 2000-05-13 Achim Zeileis
51 RODBC RODBCODBC Database Access 2000-05-24 Brian Ripley
52 maptree maptreeMapping, Pruning, and Graphing Tree Models 2000-06-13 Robert B. Gramacy
53 Matrix MatrixSparse and Dense Matrix Classes and Methods 2000-07-15 Martin Maechler
54 gafit gafitGenetic Algorithm for Curve Fitting 2000-08-17 Telford Tendys
55 ellipse ellipseFunctions for Drawing Ellipses and Ellipse-Like Confidence Regions 2000-08-19 Duncan Murdoch
56 PHYLOGR PHYLOGRFunctions for Phylogenetically Based Statistical Analyses 2000-08-31 Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
57 tensor tensorTensor product of arrays 2000-09-14 Jonathan Rougier
58 dse dseDynamic Systems Estimation (Time Series Package) 2000-09-28 Paul Gilbert
59 mgcv mgcvMixed GAM Computation Vehicle with Automatic Smoothness Estimation 2000-10-04 Simon Wood
60 RMySQL RMySQLDatabase Interface and "MySQL" Driver for R 2000-10-06 Jeroen Ooms
61 gld gldEstimation and Use of the Generalised (Tukey) Lambda Distribution 2000-11-02 Robert King
62 splancs splancsSpatial and Space-Time Point Pattern Analysis 2000-11-05 Roger Bivand
63 mvtnorm mvtnormMultivariate Normal and t Distributions 2000-11-14 Torsten Hothorn
64 XML XMLTools for Parsing and Generating XML Within R and S-Plus 2000-11-15 CRAN Team
65 StatDataML StatDataMLRead and Write StatDataML Files 2000-11-22 David Meyer
66 bootstrap bootstrapFunctions for the Book "An Introduction to the Bootstrap" 2000-12-06 Scott Kostyshak
67 xtable xtableExport Tables to LaTeX or HTML 2000-12-13 David Scott
68 locfit locfitLocal Regression, Likelihood and Density Estimation 2000-12-19 Andy Liaw
69 write.snns write.snnsFunction for exporting data to SNNS pattern files. 2001-01-08 Manuel Castejon Limas
70 R2HTML R2HTMLHTML Exportation for R Objects 2001-01-25 Milan Bouchet-Valat
71 exactRankTests exactRankTestsExact Distributions for Rank and Permutation Tests 2001-02-20 Torsten Hothorn
72 scatterplot3d scatterplot3d3D Scatter Plot 2001-03-08 Uwe Ligges
73 bqtl bqtlBayesian QTL Mapping Toolkit 2001-03-10 Charles C. Berry
74 cmprsk cmprskSubdistribution Analysis of Competing Risks 2001-03-12 Bob Gray
75 SuppDists SuppDistsSupplementary Distributions 2001-04-11 Thorsten Pohlert
76 cramer cramerMultivariate Nonparametric Cramer-Test for the Two-Sample-Problem 2001-04-12 Carsten Franz
77 PTAk PTAkPrincipal Tensor Analysis on k Modes 2001-04-19 Didier G. Leibovici
78 maxstat maxstatMaximally Selected Rank Statistics 2001-04-23 Torsten Hothorn
79 car carCompanion to Applied Regression 2001-05-01 John Fox
80 sem semStructural Equation Models 2001-05-01 John Fox
81 Oarray OarrayArrays with Arbitrary Offsets 2001-05-15 Robin K. S. Hankin
82 strucchange strucchangeTesting, Monitoring, and Dating Structural Changes 2001-05-17 Achim Zeileis
83 lpridge lpridgeLocal Polynomial (Ridge) Regression 2001-05-18 Martin Maechler
84 lattice latticeTrellis Graphics for R 2001-05-18 Deepayan Sarkar
85 lgtdl lgtdlA Set of Methods for Longitudinal Data Objects 2001-05-21 Arthur Allignol
86 geoR geoRAnalysis of Geostatistical Data 2001-05-28 Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro Jr
87 sna snaTools for Social Network Analysis 2001-05-28 Carter T. Butts
88 conf.design conf.designConstruction of factorial designs 2001-06-08 Bill Venables
89 lokern lokernKernel Regression Smoothing with Local or Global Plug-in Bandwidth 2001-06-13 Martin Maechler
90 survival survivalSurvival Analysis 2001-06-22 Terry M Therneau
91 Rwave RwaveTime-Frequency Analysis of 1-D Signals 2001-07-12 Jonathan M. Lees
92 fields fieldsTools for Spatial Data 2001-07-27 Douglas Nychka
93 muhaz muhazHazard Function Estimation in Survival Analysis 2001-08-07 David Winsemius
94 fastICA fastICAFastICA Algorithms to Perform ICA and Projection Pursuit 2001-08-10 Brian Ripley
95 vegan veganCommunity Ecology Package 2001-09-06 Jari Oksanen
96 pixmap pixmapBitmap Images / Pixel Maps 2001-09-10 Friedrich Leisch
97 waveslim waveslimBasic Wavelet Routines for One-, Two-, and Three-Dimensional Signal Processing 2001-10-18 Brandon Whitcher
98 qtl qtlTools for Analyzing QTL Experiments 2001-10-30 Karl W Broman
99 ROracle ROracleOCI Based Oracle Database Interface for R 2001-11-03 Rajendra S. Pingte
100 RSQLite RSQLiteSQLite Interface for R 2001-11-03 Kirill Mller

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