An introduction to Generalized Additive Models with R

York University, October 17, 2017

Requirements

You will require a recent version of R — ideally the latest 3.4.2 release — plus an R-aware edit in which to write scripts and run code, for which I recommend RStudio. You'll also need a recent version of the mgcv package.

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Packages

We'll be using the mgcv package for fitting GAMs; make sure you have the latest version installed!

Packages required:

• mgcv
• gamair

You can install these packages using

install.packages(c('mgcv', 'gamair'))