1.7 R core packages

• R comes with few bundled core packages which provide various data analytics/statistical capabilities to R. The base package in R has basic functions and operators which are required for analytical programming, stats is another example of core R packages.

# List of R core packages
row.names(installed.packages(priority = "base"))

 [1] "base"      "compiler"  "datasets"  "graphics"  "grDevices" "grid"     
 [7] "methods"   "parallel"  "splines"   "stats"     "stats4"    "tcltk"    
[13] "tools"     "utils"