[R] Wald tests and Huberized variances (was: A comment about R:)

[bogdan romocea]

Peter Muhlberger wrote:
> But, there is a second point here, which is how difficult it
> was for me [...] to find what seem to me like standard & key
> features I've taken for granted in other packages.

There is another side to this. Don't consider only how difficult it
was to find what you were looking for; also remember to be _glad_ that
there are so many packages and features to choose from. IMHO, the
benefit of having a lot of packages dwarfs all the efforts needed to
locate the right ones.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Peter
> Muhlberger
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:44 PM
> To: Achim Zeileis
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Wald tests and Huberized variances (was: A
> comment about R:)
>
>
> Hi Achim:  Your reply is tremendously helpful in addressing
> some of the
> outstanding questions I had about R.  The 'econometrics view'
> materials look
> exactly like what I needed.  Many thanks!
>
> But, there is a second point here, which is how difficult it
> was for me, as
> someone just becoming more familiar w/ R's more basic
> capabilities (in the
> past I've focused on features like optim, sem), to find what
> seem to me like
> standard & key features I've taken for granted in other
> packages.  I looked
> high & low in my existing installed packages for the standard
> version of R,
> I googled, I looked in the r-help archives, I looked through
> several manuals
> / introductions to R I had downloaded.  I've asked questions
> about all of
> the points I raised in my email on this email list before.  I
> believe I
> passed through the parent directory for the econometric view
> material at the
> website w/o realizing what it contained because I thought of
> "computational
> econometrics" as having to do w/ running Monte Carlo models
> of economic
> processes.
>
> If R wants to bring in a wider audience, one thing that might
> help is a
> denser set of cross-references.  For example, perhaps lm's help should
> mention the econometrics view materials as well as other
> places to look for
> tests and procedures people may want to do w/ lm.  Another
> thought is that
> perhaps the standard R package help should allow people to find
> non-installed but commonly used contributed packages and
> perhaps their help
> page contents.  A feature that would be very helpful for me
> is the capacity
> to search all the contents of help files, not just keywords
> that at times
> seem to miss what I'm trying to find.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
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