No, it really is base R, not Recommended:
Peters-MacBook-Air:BUILD pd$ ls ../R/src/library/Recommended/
KernSmooth.tgz foreign.tgz
KernSmooth_2.23-20.tar.gz foreign_0.8-81.tar.gz
MASS.tgz lattice.tgz
MASS_7.3-54.tar.gz lattice_0.20-44.tar.gz
Makefile.in mgcv.tgz
Makefile.win mgcv_1.8-35.tar.gz
Matrix.tgz nlme.tgz
Matrix_1.3-3.tar.gz nlme_3.1-152.tar.gz
boot.tgz nnet.tgz
boot_1.3-28.tar.gz nnet_7.3-16.tar.gz
class.tgz rpart.tgz
class_7.3-19.tar.gz rpart_4.1-15.tar.gz
cluster.tgz spatial.tgz
cluster_2.1.2.tar.gz spatial_7.3-14.tar.gz
codetools.tgz survival.tgz
codetools_0.2-18.tar.gz survival_3.2-11.tar.gz
Peters-MacBook-Air:BUILD pd$ ls ../R/src/library/
Makefile.in compiler grid splines tools
Makefile.win datasets methods stats translations
Recommended grDevices parallel stats4 utils
base graphics profile tcltk> row.names(installed.packages(priority = "base"))
[1] "base" "compiler" "datasets"
"graphics" "grDevices" "grid"
[7] "methods" "parallel" "splines"
"stats" "stats4" "tcltk"
[13] "tools" "utils"
'profile' is not an actual package, though.
- Peter
> On 20 May 2021, at 13:12 , Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> splines is 'recommended' ( not sure about capitalization), not
"base'
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2021, 7:02 AM Randall Pruim <rpruim at calvin.edu>
wrote:
> Thanks. I actually sort of checked for this:
>
>
> row.names(installed.packages(priority = "base"))
> [1] "base" "compiler" "datasets"
"graphics" "grDevices" "grid"
"methods" "parallel" "stats"
"stats4" "tcltk"
> [12] "tools" "utils"
>
> But, of course, if the package is missing on my system (a newly installed
4.1 on an RStudio server), then it won?t be listed here.
>
> I?ll have to figure out what went wrong with the install. I?ll probably
start by having our sysadmin simply reinstall R 4.1 and hope that that takes
care of the problem.
>
> Looks like profile is missing as well.
>
> ?rjp
>
> On May 20, 2021, at 3:14 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at
gmail.com<mailto:pdalgd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> It is part of base R, so comes with the R sources:
>
> Peters-MacBook-Air:R pd$ ls src/library/
> Makefile.in compiler/ grid/ splines/ tools/
> Makefile.win<http://Makefile.win> datasets/ methods/ stats/
translations/
> Recommended/ grDevices/ parallel/ stats4/ utils/
> base/ graphics/ profile/ tcltk/
>
> - pd
>
> On 20 May 2021, at 06:02 , Randall Pruim <rpruim at
calvin.edu<mailto:rpruim at calvin.edu>> wrote:
>
>
>
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cran.r-2Dproject.org_web_packages_splines_index.html&d=DwIFaQ&c=4rZ6NPIETe-LE5i2KBR4rw&r=S6U-baLhvGcJ7iUQX_KZ6K2om1TTOeUI_-mjRpTrm00&m=GW4Zim0TvggrmjKt0HtW7il0NwJJaworM4-LL3H2FyI&s=69EYlZJd6di726T20ILKnX7f4GWM-VaUplRjNXfGolQ&e=
claims the the {splines} package has been archived. If I follow the link there
to the archives, the newest version shown is from 1999. It seems like something
has gone wrong with this package.
>
> I checked on another mirror and {splines} is missing there as well.
>
> ?rjp
>
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