[R] Rmetrics New Built

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Diethelm" == Diethelm Wuertz <wuertz at itp.phys.ethz.ch>
>>>>>     on Mon, 31 May 2004 21:40:40 +0000 writes:

    Diethelm> Hello Elijah, Hello Dirk
    Diethelm> First of all many thanks for your help and support.

    Diethelm> 1) Sorry, I  used non-standard kyewords and thus I added to my 
    Diethelm> doc/KEYWORDS.db database
    Diethelm> the following lines:

    Diethelm> Rmetrics: Rmetrics
    Diethelm> Rmetrics|winRmetrics: winRmetrics
    Diethelm> Rmetrics|fBasics: Basics
    Diethelm> Rmetrics|fSeries: Series
    Diethelm> Rmetrics|fExtremes: Extremes
    Diethelm> Rmetrics|fOptions: Options

    Diethelm> Then you don't get the warnings.

    Diethelm> Maybe it is not a good idea to have non-standard keywords.

yes, definitely not a good idea!
The point about them is that there's a public well defined set.

We know that \keyword{} is a bit of a misnomer (inherited from
S's .KW) and denotes rather something like "category" (which has
to be relatively broad and still relatively well defined).
Consequently we have begun to use \concept{.} for `free' keywords
or key phrases.  Note that \concept{} entries will also be found
by help.search().

Adding new keywords to the KEYWORDS.db (and KEYWORDS) is
a possibility, but not to be done lightly.
We (R-core) have added a few new keywords in the past, but not
more than one or two per year (examples from the last three
years are  'graphs', 'survey', 'databases', 'datagen', 'internal').

We don't have a specific keyword for the realm of financial
mathematics and statistics (there's "ts" for time series and
"chron" for 'date and times'). 
I don't think there should be more than one though. Some cheap 
ideas would be one of
\keyword{financial}
\keyword{finance}
\keyword{finmetrics}
What does Insightful use for (their add-on module) "S+Finmetrics"?

Best regards,
Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>	http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
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