From ahenningsen at email.uni-kiel.de  Thu Oct 25 19:52:20 2007
From: ahenningsen at email.uni-kiel.de (Arne Henningsen)
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:52:20 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Splitting up the micEcon package?
Message-ID: <200710251952.20587.ahenningsen@email.uni-kiel.de>

Dear R Developers:

The functions of our micEcon package can be subdivided into 3 categories:
- microeconomic demand and firm models
- sample selection models (mainly selection())
- routines for (likelihood) maximization (e.g. maxLik(), maxNR(), maxBHHH())
   (mainly used for ML estimation of sample selection models)

Although sample selection models are often used in microeconomic analyses, 
they are also used in several other disciplines. Therefore, we are unsure 
whether it is better to keep these different functionalities in the micEcon 
package or to move the sample selection models and the routines for 
(likelihood) maximization into one or two new package(s) (increasing the long 
list of R packages even further).
What is your recommendation?

Thank you,
Ott & Arne

-- 
Arne Henningsen
Department of Agricultural Economics
University of Kiel
Olshausenstr. 40
D-24098 Kiel (Germany)
Tel: +49-431-880 4445
Fax: +49-431-880 1397
ahenningsen at agric-econ.uni-kiel.de
http://www.uni-kiel.de/agrarpol/ahenningsen/
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[Rd] Splitting up the micEcon package?
Arne Henningsen