1.6 Task Views in R-Introduction & Installation

  • Task Views in R provide packages grouped together according to a generalized task they are used for.

  • Table below gives the name of task views available4.

  • The following commands install the package ctv and then Finance task view.

# install package task views
install.packages("ctv")
library("ctv")  #R function library() is used to call a package
# install Finance task view
install.views("Finance")
Task Views

Figure 1.2: Task Views

  1. This list of available task views can be found at http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/↩︎