[R] Fitting Distributions

[Denham Robert]

Tharacad,
        this sort of question comes up fairly often.  A good way to
search for similar questions is at Jonathon Baron's site
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search.html, and a really good way to begin
estimating distribution parameters in R is to look at a presentation
Peter Dalgaard once did and made available on a web site at
http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/JSM2001.pdf 


Regards,
Robert Denham

> I am new to R. So, please bear with me if this questions is already
been
> asked and answered.

> I am looking for a R function that fit a dataset to common
distributions
> such as Normla, Log-Normal, Poisson, Weibull, and Beta. Basically I am
> looking for ways to estimate distribution parameters rather than
having to
> write a program for it.

> Thanks for your help.



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