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  <dc:title>Statistical Shape Analysis</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package shapes version 1.2.8</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Routines for the statistical analysis of landmark 
  shapes, including Procrustes analysis, graphical displays, principal
  components analysis, permutation and bootstrap tests, thin-plate 
  spline transformation grids and comparing covariance matrices. 
     See Dryden, I.L. and Mardia, K.V. (2016). Statistical shape analysis, 
     with Applications in R (2nd Edition), John Wiley and Sons. </dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: minpack.lm, scatterplot3d, rgl, MASS, fitdistrplus</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Ian Dryden &lt;ian.dryden@nottingham.ac.uk&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Ian Dryden [aut, cre]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-2</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2025-10-24</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=shapes</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.shapes</dc:identifier>
</oai_dc:dc>
