gtools, gdata, stats, caTools, KernSmooth

Gregory R. Warnes, Ben Bolker, Lodewijk Bonebakker, Robert
	Gentleman, Wolfgang Huber Andy Liaw, Thomas Lumley, Martin
	Maechler, Arni Magnusson, Steffen Moeller, Marc Schwartz, Bill
	Venables

Tools for Splitting, Applying and Combining Data

A set of tools that solves a common set of problems: you
    need to break a big problem down into manageable pieces, operate on each
    piece and then put all the pieces back together.  For example, you might
    want to fit a model to each spatial location or time point in your study,
    summarise data by panels or collapse high-dimensional arrays to simpler
    summary statistics. The development of 'plyr' has been generously supported
    by 'Becton Dickinson'.

person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@rstudio.com", c("aut", "cre"))

abind, testthat, tcltk, foreach, doParallel, itertools,
iterators, covr

A rewrite of the graphics layout capabilities, plus some
  support for interaction.

Various R Programming Tools for Data Manipulation

Various R programming tools for data manipulation, including:
   - medical unit conversions ('ConvertMedUnits', 'MedUnits'),
   - combining objects ('bindData', 'cbindX', 'combine', 'interleave'),
   - character vector operations ('centerText', 'startsWith', 'trim'),
   - factor manipulation ('levels', 'reorder.factor', 'mapLevels'),
   - obtaining information about R objects ('object.size', 'elem', 'env',
     'humanReadable', 'is.what', 'll', 'keep', 'ls.funs',
     'Args','nPairs', 'nobs'),
   - manipulating MS-Excel formatted files ('read.xls',
     'installXLSXsupport', 'sheetCount', 'xlsFormats'),
   - generating fixed-width format files ('write.fwf'),
   - extricating components of date & time objects ('getYear', 'getMonth',
     'getDay', 'getHour', 'getMin', 'getSec'),
   - operations on columns of data frames  ('matchcols', 'rename.vars'),
   - matrix operations ('unmatrix', 'upperTriangle', 'lowerTriangle'),
   - operations on vectors ('case', 'unknownToNA', 'duplicated2', 'trimSum'),
   - operations on data frames ('frameApply', 'wideByFactor'),
   - value of last evaluated expression ('ans'), and
   - wrapper for 'sample' that ensures consistent behavior for both
     scalar and vector arguments ('resample').