From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Sat Dec  8 08:02:48 2001
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 08:02:48 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] lowess() as a generic function
In-Reply-To: <5429125E11E4D411AF7300805FE603A8014CF0AE@groexmbcr02.pfizer.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0112080757500.2035-100000@gannet.stats>

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Warnes, Gregory R wrote:

> I've been providing a generic version of lowess()  in my 'gregmisc' library,
> along with a 'lowess.formula' and 'lowess.default'.
>
> Can/should these be moved into base?

Not during feature freeze for 1.4.0.

Folks, we have something like a 6-month release cycle (details on
developer.r-project.org) and it's amazing how often we get feature
requests just prior to a release.

I presume there are other methods needed: I thought lowess had to a
large extent been superseded by loess.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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[Rd] lowess() as a generic function
Prof Brian Ripley