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Table 1 R packages used for the creation of splines

From: A review of spline function procedures in R

Package

Downloaded

RD

Description

Authors

gss

632212

9

General smoothing splines

Chong Gu

rms

598185

63

Regression modeling strategies

Frank Harrell Jr

polspline

406661

11

Polynomial spline routines

Charles Kooperberg

pspline

146939

11

Penalized smoothing splines

Brian Ripley

logspline

130048

10

Logspline density estimation routines

Charles Kooperberg

cobs

58533

6

Constrained B-splines

PT Ng and M Maechler

crs

58347

2

Categorical regression splines

JS Racine, Z Nie, BD Ripley

splines2

31031

4

Regression spline functions and classes

Wenjie Wang and Jun Yan

bigsplines

25940

1

Smoothing splines for large samples

Nathaniel E. Helwig

bezier

18483

1

Bezier curve and spline toolkit

Aaron Olsen

pbs

17794

1

Periodic B splines

Shuangcai Wang

freeknotsplines

13761

0

Free-knot splines

S Spiriti, P Smith, P Lecuyer

orthogonalsplinebasis

13436

1

Orthogonal B-spline functions

Andrew Redd

ConSpline

10565

0

Partial linear least-squares regression using constrained splines

Mary Meyer

episplineDensity

9375

0

Density estimation exponential

S Buttrey, J Royset, R Wets

  1. The number of times of time each package was downloaded is measured from 01/10/2012 to 15/11/2018. Number of downloads does not correspond to unique users. Reverse dependencies (RD) stands for the number of other packages that call each one