Dear useRs, I am happy to announce the publication on CRAN of the qgam package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/qgam/index.html qgam is an extension of mgcv, and provides methods for fitting quantile additive models including parametric, random and smooth effects. For basic examples see the vignette: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/qgam/vignettes/qgam.html For more details on the underlying methods see the arXived paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03307 Comments, criticisms and feature requests are more than welcome. The package is also available on github: https://github.com/mfasiolo/qgam Best, Matteo Fasiolo [[alternative HTML version deleted]]