Making a contributed library part of R-base
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Kurt Hornik wrote:
M Edward Borasky writes:
How are the libraries that are distributed with R-base chosen for inclusion? There is one, "sm", that I use quite often, and it would be a minor convenience if this one was included with R-base. Would it be possible to distribute all the GPL contributed libraries with R-base and allow the user to choose the ones to be included on the destination system at install time?
With R 1.3.0, to be out by the end of June, we will have a new category of `recommended' packages which should be available for each binary distribution of R. These will include KernSmooth VR boot cluster foreign mgcv nlme rpart survival Criteria for adding to this list include an acceptable license status, quality, and amount of ``general'' interest for a package. Hope this helps. -k
Yes, it does help. Kernel smoothing is something I do quite a bit of, although among the various R packages I've pretty much settled on "sm" because I can interactively set the bandwidth parameter when I need to. KernSmooth will work, though. IIRC KernSmooth also does derivatives, which is something I also need occasionally. -- znmeb at aracnet.com (M. Edward Borasky) http://www.aracnet.com/~znmeb "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Marx -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._