[R] fitdistr() in MASS library

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Jim Lemon wrote:

> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >
> > Even better, use the function fitdistr in package MASS...
> >
>
> I had a look in my MASS library (from the package VR_6.2-6) and couldn't
> find this function. Is there a newer version available? Thanks for any
> help.

Take a look on CRAN or the MASS3 site: the current version is 6.3-2.

VR_6.2-6.tar.gz dates from June last year: R has had three releases since,
so you might want to upgrade your R too (or after 1.4.1 comes out
tomorrow).

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