The official maintainers were dismissive when I suggested there were some
problems I could fix with the then implementation of polr. I haven't looked
at it since, sorry.


On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Guido Biele [via R] <
ml-node+s789695n4695392h43@n4.nabble.com> wrote:

> I modified (where neccessary) the file polr.R of the current MASS package
> (7.3-33) following the fixes in fixed-polr.R* and it is still working.
> the original polr.R file had implemented some of Tim's suggestion, but not
> the new method to generate starting values for the optimization.
>
> Does anybody know why polr was only partially "fixed"?
>
> Regards - Guido
>
> *http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/attachment/4647403/0/fixed-polr.R
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