[R] Package norm has been removed. What to use for Maximum L

[(Ted Harding)]

On 17-Jul-09 13:01:46, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Ted
> Harding<Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Follow-up:
>>
>> On 17-Jul-09 12:38:27, Ted Harding wrote:
>>> On a point of information: The licence in question:
>>>
>>> License: The software may be distributed free of charge and used
>>> _ _ _ _ _by anyone if credit is given. It has been tested fairly
>>> _ _ _ _ _well, but it comes with no guarantees and the authors
>>> _ _ _ _ _assume no liability for its use or misuse.
>>>
>>> is verbatim from Joe Shafer's original licence for his NORM.
>>> He used exactly the same wording for his packages CAT, MIX and PAN.
>>> These were originally written in S, with FORTRAN code for many of
>>> the functions. The various people who have ported these to R have
>>> simply copied these words into the R packages. See (if you have
>>> the packages installed)
>>> _ library(help=cat)
>>> _ library(help=norm)
>>> _ library)help=mix)
>>>
>>> I may have some comments about this "removed from CRAN" issue later,
>>> but I need to think about them first ...
>>>
>>> Best wishes to all,
>>> Ted.
>>
>> While Joe Shafer's MI software web page
>>
>> _http://www.stat.psu.edu/~jls/misoftwa.html
>>
>> as cited in the R help pages, still exists (though apparently still
>> dating from 1999), only the Windows versions of NORM, CAT, MIX and PAN
>> are still accessible. The link to the Unix versions:
>>
>> "S-PLUS for Unix:" _http://www.stat.psu.edu/~jls/splunix.html
>>
>> no longer leads anywhere (though it still did only a few years ago).
> 
> Its archived here:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20050212143644/http://www.stat.psu.edu/
> ~jls/splunix.html

Thanks, Gabor!
Ted.

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Date: 17-Jul-09                                       Time: 14:27:26
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