In short, pick your poison...

Is there any particular reason why the tools that shipped with R itself (e.g., kernSmooth) are inadequate for you?

I like using the locfit package because it has many tools, including the ones that the author didn't think were optimal.  You may need the book to get most mileage out of it though.

Andy

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From: Michael [mailto:comtech.usa@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:25 AM
To: Liaw, Andy
Cc: Bert Gunter; r-help
Subject: Re: [R] Good and modern Kernel Regression package in R with auto-bandwidth?

$B#I(Bmeant its very slow when I use "cv.aic"...

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Michael <comtech.usa@gmail.com<mailto:comtech.usa@gmail.com>> wrote:
Is "np" an okay package to use?

I am worried about the "multi-start" thing... and also it's very slow...


On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw@merck.com<mailto:andy_liaw@merck.com>> wrote:
Bert's question aside (I was going to ask about laundry, but that's much harder than taxes...), my understanding of the situation is that "optimal" is in the eye of the beholder.  There were at least two schools of thought on which is the better way of automatically selecting bandwidth, using plug-in methods or CV-type.  The last I check, the jury is still out.

Andy

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> R with auto-bandwidth?
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> Would you like it to do your your taxes for you too? :-)
>
> Bert
>
> Sent from my iPhone -- please excuse typos.
>
> On Feb 22, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Michael <comtech.usa@gmail.com<mailto:comtech.usa@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am looking for a good and modern Kernel Regression
> package in R, which
> > has the following features:
> >
> > 1) It has cross-validation
> > 2) It can automatically choose the "optimal" bandwidth
> > 3) It doesn't have random effect - i.e. if I run the
> function at different
> > times on the same data-set, the results should be exactly
> the same... I am
> > trying "np", but I am seeing:
> >
> > Multistart 1 of 1 |
> > Multistart 1 of 1 |
> > ...
> >
> > It looks like in order to do the optimization, it's doing
> > multiple-random-start optimization... am I right?
> >
> >
> > Could you please give me some pointers?
> >
> > I did some google search but there are so many packages
> that do this... I
> > just wanted to find the best/modern one to use...
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
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