The shapes package : statistical shape analysis in R

Dryden, I. L. (2012). shapes package. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. Contributed package. URL http://www.R-project.org

The shapes package contains routines for the statistical analysis of shapes. Note that you will need to have access to R on your machine, and then the shapes package is loaded in using the command library(shapes) . You can download R from CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network).

Windows users: after starting R, the package is simply installed using the menu option Packages -> Install Package(s) from CRAN and then select shapes from the long list of packages.

Other platforms: see below and the R web pages.

A quick tutorial (text file) is available.

The shapes package manual.

Version 1.1-5 is the current latest version available (Jan 4, 2012)

The shapes package can be downloaded from CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network) : shapes

Also available from CRAN are the binaries for Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.

Brief installation instructions: INSTALL

Reference to the methodology: Dryden and Mardia (1998) Statistical shape analysis, Wiley.

Please report any errors to Ian Dryden, University of South Carolina. If you find these routines useful or not then please let me know. Also, acknowledgement of the use of the routines is appreciated, especially by using the reference:

Dryden, I. L. (2012). shapes package. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. Contributed package. URL http://www.R-project.org

  @Manual{Dryden12,
     title        = {{\tt shapes} package},
     author       = {Dryden, I. L.},
     organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},
     address      = {Vienna, Austria},
     year         = 2012,
     note         = {Contributed package},
     url          = {http://www.R-project.org}
   }

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