meter estimation of any lifetime distribution implemented in R via maximum likelihood (ML) given a data set. It is implemented thinking on parametric survival analysis, but it feasible to use in parameter estimation of probability density or mass functions in any field. The main routines maxlogL and maxlogLreg are wrapper functions specifically developed for ML estimation. There are included optimization procedures such as nlminb and optim from base package, and DEoptim Mullen (2011) &lt;doi:10.18637/jss.v0