using MANOVA in R

Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

Not really any of it!  multilm fits multivariate linear models and does
Hotelling T^2 tests. It does not group terms for AOV, and I think is only
applicable for continuous variates (not factor explantory variables).
Certainly the help and examples only discuss that case.

Had a closer look. The factor expl.var. would seem to be there
case-wise, so you can build the models, but Wilk's Lambda and friends
are absent, so you cannot (easily) do multi-df model reduction tests.
However, it's no too far off. Is the author planning to develop it
further?

Now it is my turn, I think :-)

1) "multilm" is on my list, but there are some theoretical problems
(e.g. is the use of Moore-Penrose numerically appropriate ?) Any help by
other distributors would be very welcome!

2) "multilm" was written for the use of the stabilized multivariate tests
by Laeuter and Kropf, T^2 is only a by-product. Therefore the
documentation is heavily biased on this. 

3) I do think that one can take factors as design variables (there is an
Iris example, I think). 

4) I just had my third move this year (this time to Erlangen, Bavaria), so
time is a problem too :-)

Torsten


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