Advanced Statistics Functions

aov    lm    glm    gam    loess    nls

Standard arguments to these functions:
formula    data    subset    weights

These functions produce a list which is given a suitable class name.  So output from lm can be thought of as an "lm-object".  For each of the model objects their are many generic functions designed to extract information of interest:

summary    coef    resid    fitted    plot