Difference between r-base and r-recommended packages

Question

Can anyone tell me what is the difference between base and recommended packages.

If there is link where base and recommended packages are mentioned please provide th

Answer 1

I am guessing that you are talking about installing R on Linux.

This is documented in the installation instructions for (for example) Debian. You can find this at http://cran.csiro.au/bin/linux/debian/

Quoting from this page:

The r-recommended set of packages are:

   r-cran-boot
   r-cran-cluster
   r-cran-class
   r-cran-codetools
   r-cran-foreign
   r-cran-kernsmooth
   r-cran-lattice
   r-cran-mass
   r-cran-matrix
   r-cran-mgcv
   r-cran-nlme
   r-cran-nnet
   r-cran-rmatrix
   r-cran-rpart
   r-cran-spatial
   r-cran-survival