R Technical Papers
This page contains technical articles about the implementation of R and its recommended packages.
For general information about R see the R Project's homepage .
The File System
Graphics
Automation of mathematical annotation in plots. Uwe Ligges, R News, 2(3):32-34, December 2002
Drawing Diagrams with R. Paul Murrell, The R Journal, 1(1):15-21, May 2009
Fonts, lines, and transparency in R graphics. Paul Murrell, R News, 4(2):5-9, September 2004
Non-standard fonts in PostScript and PDF graphics. Paul Murrell and Brian Ripley. R News, 6(2):41-47, May 2006
The grid graphics package. Paul Murrell, R News, 2(2):14-19, June 2002 ;
Recent changes in grid graphics. Paul Murrell, R News, 5(1):12-20, May 2005
Integrating grid graphics output with base graphics output. Paul Murrell, R News, 3(2):7-12, October 2003
Lattice. Deepayan Sarkar, R News, 2(2):19-23, June 2002
Raster Images in R Graphics. Paul Murrell, The R Journal, 3(1):48-54, June 2011
The Help and Documentation Systems
CRAN task views. Achim Zeileis, R News, 5(1):39-40, May 2005
Getting help - R's help facilities and manuals. Uwe Ligges, R News, 3(1):26-28, 2003
The New R Help System. Duncan Murdoch and Simon Urbanek, The R Journal, 1(2):60-65, December 2009
Sweave, part I: Mixing R and LATEX. Friedrich Leisch, R News, 2(3):28-31, December 2002 ;
Sweave, part II: Package vignettes. Friedrich Leisch, R News, 3(2):21-24, October 2003
Who did what? The roles of R package authors and how to refer to them.
Kurt Hornik, Duncan Murdoch and Achim Zeileis.
The
R Journal, 4(1):64-69, June 2012.
What's new?
Kurt Hornik and Duncan Murdoch.
The
R Journal, 2(2):74--76, December 2010.
Programming and Internal Issues
Accessing the sources. Uwe Ligges, R News, 6(4):43-45, October 2006
Converting packages to S4. Douglas Bates, R News, 3(1):6-8, June 2003
In search of C/C++ & FORTRAN routines. Duncan Temple Lang, R News, 1(3):20-23, September 2001
Lazy loading and packages in R 2.0.0. Brian D. Ripley, R News, 4(2):2-4, September 2004
Name space management for R. Luke Tierney, R News, 3(1):2-6, June 2003
Packages and their management in R 2.1.0. Brian D. Ripley, R News, 5(1):8-11, May 2005
Source References. Duncan Murdoch, The R Journal, 2(2):16-19, December 2010
Under new memory management. Luke Tierney, R News, 1(1):10-11, January 2001
A
Byte Code Compiler for R . Luke Tierney, October 2019.Protecting the BC Stack from Mutation. Luke Tierney, October 2019.
Watch your spelling! Kurt Hornik and Duncan Murdoch.
The
R Journal, 3(2):22--28, December 2011.
ALTREP:
Alternative Representations for R Objects . Luke Tierney, Gabe
Becker, Tomas Kalibera, October 2018.
Other topics
Date-time classes. Brian D. Ripley and Kurt Hornik, R News, 1(2):8-11, June 2001
Fitting linear mixed models in R. Douglas Bates, R News, 5(1):27-30, May 2005
Internationalization features of R 2.1.0. Brian D. Ripley, R News, 5(1):2-7, May 2005
mgcv: GAMs and generalized ridge regression for R. Simon N. Wood, R News, 1(2):20-25, June 2001
New functions for multivariate analysis. Peter Dalgaard, R News, 7(2):2-7, October 2007
A primer on the R-Tcl/Tk package. Peter Dalgaard, R News, 1(3):27-31, September 2001 ;
Changes to the R-Tcl/Tk package. Peter Dalgaard, R News, 2(3):25-27, December 2002
Resampling methods in R: The boot package. Angelo J. Canty, R News, 2(3):2-7, December 2002
The survival package. Thomas Lumley, R News, 4(1):26-28, June 2004
Time series in R 1.5.0. Brian D. Ripley, R News, 2(2):2-7, June 2002
