[Rd] cran task view

[Achim Zeileis]

Christophe:

> Yesterday, I try to look at a CRAN task view on extreme value theory (EVT). 
> Does anyone plan to do a CRAN task view on this topic?

Not that I know of.

> Packages related to this topic seem to be spread among finance, econometrics 
> and social econometrics.

Maybe more on the finance side...

> Maybe this discussion could wait this july useR?

Sure, we can talk, probably together with Dirk. I guess that the number 
of packages for EVT is also not excessive so that we might be able to 
include it in the Finance view.

Best,
Z