In Auburngrads/SMRD: Statistical Methods For Reliability Data

SMRD was derived from an S-Plus software package called SPLIDA (S-Plus LIfe Data Analysis) by Dr. Bill Meeker
- Dr Meeker wrote a large collection of FORTRAN subroutines to during his career at Bell Labs and Iowa State University
- With the help of Dr. Luis Escobar, Dr. Meeker created the SPLIDA package by porting the FORTRAN code to S-Plus
- The SPLIDA package serves as the companion software for Statistical Methods for Reliability Data 1^st ed.
- GUI interface - plots and results were difficult to customize
Meeker later translated SPLIDA into R and renamed the package RSplida
- R is an updated implementation of S/S-Plus language
- Translation was rushed and incomplete - couldn't be installed as a traditional R package
- Retained many of the 'GUI' limitations of SPLIDA
- Couldn't be used any IDE (i.e. RStudio, Eclipse, etc.)
- Not user-friendly
In 2014, Freels began updating RSplida as an R package
- Initially named meekR, then renamed SMRD
- SMRD will be published to the CRAN in 2017 along with the 2^nd edition of Statistical Methods for Reliability Data
- Installing SMRD requires the installation of two dependencies plot3D and FSA
- In the R console, run install.packages(c('plot3D','FSA'))