[R] problem with fitdistr ?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 18 Feb 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > It works under the versions 7.2-0 dated Jan 22 or later: that on CRAN is 
> > dated Jan 14 and predates 7.1-14.
> > 
> > Since R-devel is `under development', the pieces are not at all times in 
> > sync.
> 
> OK. I'm still picking up the older version from CRAN on r-devel
> builds, though.

I have submitted an update to CRAN.

> I'd bump the build number rather than rely on the date to discern
> different versions of packages.

I do once they are released, but this one is not released (hence the -0).

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595