From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Sun Jun  1 11:45:32 2003
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: Sun Jun  1 12:45:34 2003
Subject: [Rd] acepack
In-Reply-To: <16089.53967.681470.441427@mithrandir.hornik.net>
References: <20030531072626.005822dc.fharrell@virginia.edu>
	<16089.53967.681470.441427@mithrandir.hornik.net>
Message-ID: <x2wug62hny.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>

Kurt Hornik <hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> >>>>> Frank E Harrell writes:
> 
> > Many moons ago I reported to r-bugs some easy to fix errors in ace and
> > avas.  I wonder if someone would mind making those corrections.
> 
> Re 'someone', fixes for add-on packages would typically be performed by
> the package maintainer ...

...and said maintainer (TL) could probably be excused for prioritizing
maintenance base R and recommended packages up to the release of
1.7.1. 

The report is #2386, I assume? 

Notice that one of your (FEH's) fixes is only easy if the statement
"whereas I believe that the ace algorithm does allow for categorical
response variables" is taken at face value. Checking that it is
actually correct could take a bit longer...


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[Rd] acepack
Peter Dalgaard BSA