From fharrell@virginia.edu  Thu Aug 23 13:54:31 2001
From: fharrell@virginia.edu (fharrell@virginia.edu)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:54:31 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Fortran routines from LINPACK in S+ but not R
References: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0108231317420.27971-100000@gannet.stats>
Message-ID: <3B84FD07.B056ED1B@virginia.edu>

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 fharrell@virginia.edu wrote:
> 
> > Dear R Developers,
> >
> > I should have had the Design library running in R by now but
> > have kept putting off changing some calls to LINPACK routines
> > to use those builtin to R.  Specifically I call dqrsl1 and dqr.
> > Would it be an easy task to put those in the next release of
> > R?  If not I'll finally bite the bullet and get back into
> > reading LINPACK documentation (which I have but haven't
> > examined in depth).
> >
> > If dqrsl1 and dqr are not truly parts of LINPACK but are
> > front-ends to routines that are, and if anyone has
> > those front-ends to share, that would also solve my problem
> > immediately.
> 
> I am pretty sure that they are not part of LINPACK: certainly dqr is not
> and neither has a LINPACK name.  dqr is called by qr.default in S-PLUS,
> and you should find dqrdc2 (also not LINPACK) called by R's qr an adequate
> substitute.

Thanks

> 
> As for dqrsl1, I've never known exactly what it supposed to do.
> Would dqrsl (which is there) suffice?

It probably will, after I get into it.  Calls are very different
on the surface.  Thanks -Frank

> 
> --
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Frank E Harrell Jr              Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
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[Rd] Fortran routines from LINPACK in S+ but not R
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