I have just uploaded version 0.5 of my libraries to the CRAN site.
Hopefully, they will shortly become available.

New features include:

1. A function (binnest in repeated) for binary data with two levels of
   nesting based on Tom Ten Have's recent Stat in Medicine paper.
   (Tom's Fortran90 routines have a builtin Newton Raphson-type
   optimizer with analytic first derivatives for these models.
   Unfortunately, this does not appear to work nearly as well as the
   Dennis and Schnabel routine in nlm that calculates numerical
   derivatives. However, as it was part of the package, I left it as
   is.)
2. The elliptic function in growth now fits multivariate Student t
   models as well as multivariate normal and multivariate power
   exponential (all are multivariate elliptical distributions).
3. elliptic now provides recursive predicted values for many models.
4. many functions can now have common parameters in the location
   regression and in the dispersion regression models.
5. Plus many enhancements and a few bug corrections (see changes.txt).

Bug reports are welcome. Alpha version 0.6 will shortly start to
appear on www.luc.ac.be/~jlindsey/rcode.html.

Jim
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