[R] problem with fitdistr ?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Which version of MASS (not that you gave me any credit)?  This works in 
the current 7.1-14.

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Ernesto Jardim wrote:

> I'm trying fitdistr but I'm getting some errors
> 
> > fitdistr(rnorm(100),"Normal")
> Error in fitdistr(rnorm(100), "Normal") : 'start' must be a named list
> > fitdistr(rnorm(100),"Normal",start=list(mean=0,sd=1))
> Error in fitdistr(rnorm(100), "Normal", start = list(mean = 0, sd = 1))
> :
>         supplying pars for the Normal is not supported
> 
> 
> What is the problem here ? Am I doing something wrong ?

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