[R] haerdle package

[Albrecht Gebhardt]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Paul Stansell wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the function below (I'm new to R)
> >
> >
> >   generator <- function(n, seed)
> >   {
> >   .Random.seed <<- seed
> >   data.1 <- rnorm(n)-1
> >   data.2 <- rnorm(n)+2
> >   data.3 <- runif(n) <= 0.6
> >   data <- data.1*data.3 + data.2*(1-data.3)
> >   data
> >   }
> >   seed <- c(61,40,6,40,55,2,44,30,20,56,41,1)
> >   dat.mixed <- sort(generator(100,seed))
> > Error in rnorm(n) : .Random.seed[1] is NOT a valid RNG kind (code)
> >   rm(generator)
> 
> Because that's not how seeds are done in R.  R != S.  Try ?random and
> see for yourself.
> 
> > This function is called dat.mixed.R and is from the R package called
> > haerdle_1.0-1.tar.gz and contains functions from Wolfgang Haerdle's book
> > called "Smoothing Techniques with Implementation in S", Springer-Verlag,
> > 1991.
> >
> > Also, why is this package not listed in the CRAN.
> > I got haerdle_1.0-1.tar.gz from
> > ftp://ftp-stat.uni-klu.ac.at/pub/R/contrib and it installed okay
> > (after I had removed the Makefile in haerdle/src/).
> 
> Because that is not a CRAN site.  As the original submitter of that
> package to statlib, I did not port it to R as there are much better
> alternatives available already.

I agree. I have moved it to ftp-stat.uni../pub/R/contrib/old because I
didn't touch it for over 3 years now (it was one of my first experiments
with porting S+ packages 5 years ago, but it didn't work perfectly at any 
time)

Albrecht

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