[R] multicomp

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> Dear R people,
> 
> I have heard rumors of a function called (I believe) multicomp in S+ for
> doing multiple comparisons for linear models. It doesn't seem to be in the
> version of R I am using, 0.90.0. Is there something equivalent to this in
> R, or does it simply not exist?

Yes, S-PLUS (but not S) has had a function called multicomp for a couple of
years. However, R is `not unlike' S version 3, not S-PLUS 4.x or 5.x.  The
latest version of R, 0.99.0, has some capability for multiple comparisons,
but nothing as comprehensive as multicomp().

> I see there is are more recent versions of R. For my platform, SuSE Linux,
> the most recent rpm available appears to be 0.90.1-2. Does the update
> effect people like myself doing basic things with linear models?

Well, _lots_ of bugs get fixed on each release, but as the only more
recent version was released earlier today, you might expect an RPM
fairly soon but not today.

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