[Rd] Optimization in R

hadley wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 04:55:38 CEST 2007


On 8/4/07, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 04/08/2007 2:53 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > The example of generic functions.
>
> Show me an example where we have a list of ways to do a calculation
> passed as an argument (analogous to the method argument of optim), where
> the user is allowed to add his own function to the list.

Bin width selection in hist?  Family functions for glm?  Those come
quickly to my mind, but I'm sure there are others.

Hadley



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