Chapter 1 Prerequisites

The R packages for nonparametric regression methods can be installed from CRAN:

install.packages("np")

This book was written in R using the bookdown package, which can be installed from CRAN or Github:

install.packages("bookdown")
# or the development version
# devtools::install_github("rstudio/bookdown")

References

  • Jeffrey S. Racine, (2009). Nonparametric and semiparametric methods in R, in Qi Li, Jeffrey S. Racine (ed.) Nonparametric Econometric Methods (Advances in Econometrics, Volume 25) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.335 - 375.

  • R Development Core Team (2008). R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0. URL: http://www.R-project.org