An R package for the forward analysis of multivariate data

We describe the R, package Rfwdmv (R package for the forward multivariate analysis) which implements the forward search for the analysis of multivariate data. The package provides functions useful for detecting atypical observations and/or subsets in the data and for testing in a robust way whether the data should be transformed. Additionally, the package contains functions for performing robust principal component analyses and robust discriminant analyses as well as a range of graphical tools for interactively assessing fitted forward searches on multivariate data.