1998 in CRAN

New packages (8)

oz Plot the Australian Coastline and States	1998-02-25
acepack ACE and AVAS for Selecting Multiple Regression Transformations	1998-03-25
mda Mixture and Flexible Discriminant Analysis	1998-04-17
akima Interpolation of Irregularly and Regularly Spaced Data	1998-08-20
tripack Triangulation of Irregularly Spaced Data	1998-08-20
logspline Routines for Logspline Density Estimation	1998-11-25
pspline Penalized Smoothing Splines	1998-11-25
stable Probability Functions and Generalized Regression Models for Stable Distributions	1998-12-09

Archived / removed

Why

2 reason not recorded

funfits	1998-10-20
ppr	1998-08-31

Notable

First-time CRAN authors

Kurt Hornik ×87 Bill Venables ×21 Jonathan Baron Scott Chasalow ×2 Jerome Friedman ×8 Shawn Garbett ×8 Bernhard Klar ×4 Thomas Lumley ×32 Phil Spector Robert Tibshirani ×6 Trevor Hastie ×21 Friedrich Leisch ×23 Balasubramanian Narasimhan ×37 Brian Ripley ×43 Hiroshi Akima Stephen Eglen ×5 Albrecht Gebhardt ×5 Martin Maechler ×88 Thomas Petzold R. J. Renka