[R] Robust location and scatter

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Christian Hennig <fm3a004 at math.uni-hamburg.de> writes:

> one year before I installed the add-on package lqs to perform robust
> estimation of multivariate location and scatter (cov.mve, cov.mcd, cov.rob).
> I had the feeling that there was something wrong with the results (perhaps I
> can reproduce it if necessary). 
> Now I looked in the CRAN-archive to see if there is a new version of lqs or
> if cov.rob had been included in the base package in the meantime.
> I browsed through the recent help.start()-manual and found
> the help pages for the robust cov-functions, but it is indicated that they
> still belong to the package lqs. But a package lqs is no longer offered.
> Is the package discarded (perhaps because of errors), or am I simply too 
> confused to search at the right place? 

lqs is a package in the standard library in recent versions of R. Use
library(lqs) to access it. If there are bugs in it, we'd appreciate a
report with a demonstration....

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