BMC Medical Research Methodology

Table 3 General features of popular regression packages

From: A review of spline function procedures in R

Package	Downloads	Vignette	Book	Website	Datasets
quantreg	5099669	X	X		8
survival	3511997	X	X		38
mgcv	3217720	X	X		2
gbm	668984			X	0
VGAM	662399	X	X	X	50
gam	459497		X	X	4
gamlss	210761	X	X	X	43

Downloads refer to the number of times a package has been downloaded (starting from 26-06-2013 up to 15-11-2018), not unique users. Also general information about whether the package has a vignette, a book or a website. Last column presents the number of real datasets available with the package

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