[R] Port package

[roger koenker]

A little more googling reveals:

The Port 3 Library is now available via netlib and licensing
arrangements are specified here:

	http://www.netlib.org/port/readme


url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
email    rkoenker at uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
fax:       217-244-6678                Champaign, IL 61820


On Jul 9, 2008, at 11:55 AM, roger koenker wrote:

> A more accurate wording,  I believe, would be "Port Library"  see:
>
> 	http://www.bell-labs.com/project/PORT/
>
> Martin  will correct me if there really is a package!!
>
> Unfortunately, the licensing link is broken on the URL above and
> it would be interesting to know what the status of licensing really
> is, since there were/are lots of useful things in this library.
>
>
> url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
> email    rkoenker at uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
> vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
> fax:       217-244-6678                Champaign, IL 61820
>
>
> On Jul 9, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Jos Kaefer wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> When I type:
>>> ?nls
>>
>> I come across this section:
>>
>> algorithm: character string specifying the algorithm to use. The
>>         default algorithm is a Gauss-Newton algorithm.  Other
>>         possible values are '"plinear"' for the Golub-Pereyra
>>         algorithm for partially linear least-squares models and
>>         '"port"' for the 'nl2sol' algorithm from the Port package.
>>
>> The simple question is: where's the Port package?
>> I can't find it on cran.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jos
>>
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