Package: fields
Version: 6.8
Date: July 15, 2013
Title: Tools for spatial data
Author: Reinhard Furrer, Douglas Nychka and Stephen Sain
Maintainer: Doug Nychka <nychka@ucar.edu>
Description: Fields is for curve, surface and function
 fitting with an emphasis on splines, spatial data and spatial
 statistics. The major methods include cubic, and thin plate splines,
 Kriging and compact covariances for large data sets. The splines and
 Kriging methods are supporting by functions that can determine the
 smoothing parameter (nugget and sill variance) by cross validation
 and also by restricted maximum likelihood.  A major feature is that
 any covariance function implemented in R with the (simple) fields
 format can be used for spatial prediction. Some tailored optimization
 functions are supplied for finding the MLEs for the Matern family of
 covariances.  There are also many useful functions for plotting and
 working with spatial data as images. This package also contains an
 implementation of sparse matrix methods for large data sets and
 currently requires the sparse matrix (spam) package for testing and
 use with large data sets.  But spam is not required for the standard
 spatial functions. Use help(fields) to get started and for an
 overview.  The fields source code is heavily commented and
 provides useful explanations of numerical details in addition to the
 manual pages.
License: GPL (>= 2)
URL: http://www.image.ucar.edu/Software/Fields
Depends: R (>= 2.13), methods, spam, maps
Packaged: 2013-07-19 14:30:38 UTC; nychka
NeedsCompilation: yes
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2013-07-19 23:45:29