[Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

[Ben Bolker]

Nathaniel Smith <njs <at> pobox.com> writes:

> I find myself needing to be able to reproduce the spline bases that R
> computes when using ns() and bs() -- but without using R. Before I go
> diving headfirst into the C code in
> ./src/library/splines/src/splines.c, are there any simpler references
> anyone might recommend? 

 [snip]

  Some of this stuff *might* be in the "White Book" (Statistical
Models in S, ed Chambers & Hastie (esp. chapter 7?)

  Ben Bolker