[Rd] dbinom link

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Hilmar Berger 
>>>>>     on Mon, 18 May 2020 11:25:56 +0200 writes:

    > What about using the Wayback Machine archive ? The web archive should be 
    > more stable than other links which also might disappear in the future.

    > E.g. 
    > https://web.archive.org/web/20070610002602/http://www.herine.net/stat/software/dbinom.html

    > , which also links to an archived copy of the PDF.

    > Best regards,
    > Hilmar

Thank you, Hilmar;  I have been aware of the web.archive ... but
I already had 3 (very slightly different) versions of the report
on my computer (from "way back" ..).

We've now added the "best" (and most recent, 2002) to the R-project website, 
and amended the 'Binomial'  help page to include the new link:  It
now says (in R-devel and 'R 4.0.0 patched') :

  Source:

     For dbinom a saddle-point expansion is used: see

     Catherine Loader (2000). _Fast and Accurate Computation of
     Binomial Probabilities_; available as <URL:
     https://www.r-project.org/doc/reports/CLoader-dbinom-2002.pdf>

Best regards,
Martin



    > On 18.05.20 10:57, peter dalgaard wrote:
    >> In principle a good idea, but I'm not sure the whereabouts of Catherine Loader are known at this point. Last peeps from her on the net seem to be about a decade old.
    >> 
    >> .pd
    >> 
    >>> On 18 May 2020, at 10:31 , Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a using gmail.com> wrote:
    >>> 
    >>> This has come up before.
    >>> 
    >>> Here's the last time:
    >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2019-March/077478.html
    >>> 
    >>> I guess my answer to the following the question...
    >>> 
    >>> Perhaps we should ask permission to
    >>> nail the thing down somewhere on r-project.org?
    >>> 
    >>> ...would be, to reproduce it somewhere.
    >>> And then update the link in the binom help file.
    >>> 
    >>> Given that the article was previously available freely (with no
    >>> apparent restrictions on reproducing it), and that the author has
    >>> significant published works which are open access, I'd be surprised if
    >>> there's any objection to reproducing it.
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 8:01 PM Koenker, Roger W <rkoenker using illinois.edu> wrote:
    >>>> FWIW the link from ?dbinom to the Loader paper on Binomials is broken but the paper seems to be
    >>>> available here:   https://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/attachment/3829107/0/loader2000Fast.pdf
    >>>> 
    >>>> Roger Koenker
    >>>> r.koenker using ucl.ac.uk<mailto:r.koenker using ucl.ac.uk>
    >>>> Honorary Professor of Economics
    >>>> Department of Economics, UCL
    >>>> Emeritus Professor of Economics
    >>>> and Statistics, UIUC
    >>>> 
    >>>> 
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