From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Jan 15 11:42:23 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu Jan 15 11:40:38 2004
Subject: [Rd] Re: Deprecate La.eigen? -- correction
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> I would like to deprecate La.eigen.  It is used in a few packages
> (ade4, fpc, gss, mvtnorm and smoothSurv on CRAN), but only in usages where 
> replacing `La.eigen' by `eigen' would call exactly the same code.
> 
> The reason for wanting to deprecate it is that little-used interfaces tend
> to get overlooked, e.g. PR#5406, a report on eigen, needed to be applied
> to La.eigen as well.  We have also fixed NaNs issues in eigen but not
> La.eigen.
> 
> Does anyone have code that uses the extra features of eigen?

Oops: of La.eigen, that is the `method' argument.
         ^^^
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[Rd] Re: Deprecate La.eigen? -- correction
Prof Brian Ripley