From Achim.Zeileis at wu-wien.ac.at  Thu Jun 11 14:11:50 2009
From: Achim.Zeileis at wu-wien.ac.at (Achim Zeileis)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:11:50 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] cran task view
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Christophe:

> Yesterday, I try to look at a CRAN task view on extreme value theory (EVT). 
> Does anyone plan to do a CRAN task view on this topic?

Not that I know of.

> Packages related to this topic seem to be spread among finance, econometrics 
> and social econometrics.

Maybe more on the finance side...

> Maybe this discussion could wait this july useR?

Sure, we can talk, probably together with Dirk. I guess that the number 
of packages for EVT is also not excessive so that we might be able to 
include it in the Finance view.

Best,
Z



[Rd] cran task view
Achim Zeileis