From jago@mclink.it  Tue Jan  1 20:17:47 2002
From: jago@mclink.it (Stefano Iacus)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 21:17:47 +0100
Subject: [Rd] ifs estimator
In-Reply-To: <15408.25675.538679.627892@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
Message-ID: <9F50E120-FEF4-11D5-BB5F-003065CC4CB8@mclink.it>

Thank you Martin,

you have been really helpful.


Stefano

On Luned, dicembre 31, 2001, at 02:12 , Martin Maechler wrote:

>>>>>> "Stefano" == Stefano Iacus <jago@mclink.it> writes:
>
>     Stefano> Hy all, I have written a small library that provide
>
> ((it's called  ``package''  , not library ... ))
>
>     Stefano> a new distribution function estimator based on IFS
>     Stefano> (that are essentially fractals).
>
>     Stefano> I would be pleased if any of you can build hte
>     Stefano> library for Unix-type machines and Windows
>     Stefano> implementations with the included makefiles as a
>     Stefano> Mac library is already working. As I'm not able to
>     Stefano> test these platforms any modification to makefiles
>     Stefano> is welcome.
>
>     Stefano> I have put something (src and Monte Carlo results)
>     Stefano> at
>
>     Stefano> http://159.149.74.117/~web/R/ifs/
>
>     Stefano> This is a very preliminary release of the library
>     Stefano> and only the basic estimator is contained in it. We
>     Stefano> (me and D. La Torre) are working on smarter
>     Stefano> estimators and also on density estimators.
>
> I had to change DESCRIPTION.in (this is for R standard
>  packages!!) to DESCRIPTION
> {and then you don't need a TITLE file anymore).
>
> Also the file permissions were wrong in quite a few places, you
> had extra executable permission on simple text files.
>
>     Stefano> On that page there is also some theory on the
>     Stefano> subject at a very preliminary stage as a full paper
>     Stefano> will follow in 2002.
> (fine).
>
> Note that I would recommend using a tests/ subdirectory
> where you'd put some of the code currently in your (separately
> packaged) ifs demo.
>
> After the above changes, `R CMD check' only reports two
> remaining problem groups :
>
> 1)
>>> * checking Rd files ... WARNING
>>> *  non-standard keyword(s) in `man/ifs.Rd': distribution function 
>>> estimation
>
> Note that you must choose from <RHOME>/doc/KEYWORDS
>
> 2)
>
>>>   * checking for undocumented objects ... WARNING
>>>   [1] "phi"    "SM.IFS"
>
>  {you have to decide what to do here}.
>
>
>     Stefano> thank you for your attention and I wish you an
>     Stefano> happy new year.
>
> The same to you and all other R-develers!
>
> Martin
>

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[Rd] ifs estimator
Stefano Iacus