grid, MASS, lattice, boot, cluster, Matrix, robust,
fit.models, MPV, xtable, ggplot2, GGally, RColorBrewer,
reshape2, sfsmisc, catdata
mostly only because of vignette graphics

"Essential" Robust Statistics.
Tools allowing to analyze data with robust methods.  This includes
regression methodology including model selections and multivariate
statistics where we strive to cover the book "Robust Statistics,
Theory and Methods" by 'Maronna, Martin and Yohai'; Wiley 2006.

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, person("Peter", "Rousseeuw", role="ctb", comment = "Qn and Sn")
, person("Christophe", "Croux", role="ctb", comment = "Qn and Sn")
, person("Valentin", "Todorov", role = "aut", email = "valentin.todorov@chello.at",
comment = "most robust Cov")
, person("Andreas", "Ruckstuhl", role = "aut", email = "andreas.ruckstuhl@zhaw.ch",
comment = "nlrob, anova, glmrob")
, person("Matias", "Salibian-Barrera", role = "aut", email = "matias@stat.ubc.ca",
comment = "lmrob orig.")
, person("Tobias", "Verbeke", role = "ctb", email = "tobias.verbeke@openanalytics.eu",
comment = "mc, adjbox")
, person("Manuel", "Koller", role = "aut", email = "koller.manuel@gmail.com",
comment = "lmrob, psi-func.")
, person("Eduardo L. T.", "Conceicao", role = "aut", email = "mail@eduardoconceicao.org",
comment = "MM-, tau-, CM-, and MTL- nlrob")
, person("Maria", "Anna di Palma", role = "ctb", comment = "initial version of Comedian")
)
Martin Maechler [aut, cre],
Peter Rousseeuw [ctb] (Qn and Sn),
Christophe Croux [ctb] (Qn and Sn),
Valentin Todorov [aut] (most robust Cov),
Andreas Ruckstuhl [aut] (nlrob, anova, glmrob),
Matias Salibian-Barrera [aut] (lmrob orig.),
Tobias Verbeke [ctb] (mc, adjbox),
Manuel Koller [aut] (lmrob, psi-func.),
Eduardo L. T. Conceicao [aut] (MM-, tau-, CM-, and MTL- nlrob),
Maria Anna di Palma [ctb] (initial version of Comedian)

c(person("Martin","Maechler", role=c("aut","cre"), email="maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch")
, person("Peter", "Rousseeuw", role="ctb", comment = "Qn and Sn")
, person("Christophe", "Croux", role="ctb", comment = "Qn and Sn")
, person("Valentin", "Todorov", role = "aut", email = "valentin.todorov@chello.at",
comment = "most robust Cov")
, person("Andreas", "Ruckstuhl", role = "aut", email = "andreas.ruckstuhl@zhaw.ch",
comment = "nlrob, anova, glmrob")
, person("Matias", "Salibian-Barrera", role = "aut", email = "matias@stat.ubc.ca",
comment = "lmrob orig.")
, person("Tobias", "Verbeke", role = c("ctb","fnd"), email = "tobias.verbeke@openanalytics.eu",
comment = "mc, adjbox")
, person("Manuel", "Koller", role = "aut", email = "koller.manuel@gmail.com",
comment = "lmrob, psi-func.")
, person(c("Eduardo", "L. T."), "Conceicao", role = "aut", email = "mail@eduardoconceicao.org",
comment = "MM-, tau-, CM-, and MTL- nlrob")
, person("Maria", "Anna di Palma", role = "ctb", comment = "initial version of Comedian")
)
Martin Maechler [aut, cre],
Peter Rousseeuw [ctb] (Qn and Sn),
Christophe Croux [ctb] (Qn and Sn),
Valentin Todorov [aut] (most robust Cov),
Andreas Ruckstuhl [aut] (nlrob, anova, glmrob),
Matias Salibian-Barrera [aut] (lmrob orig.),
Tobias Verbeke [ctb, fnd] (mc, adjbox),
Manuel Koller [aut] (lmrob, psi-func.),
Eduardo L. T. Conceicao [aut] (MM-, tau-, CM-, and MTL- nlrob),
Maria Anna di Palma [ctb] (initial version of Comedian)