[R] Package norm has been removed. What to use for Maximum L

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Ted
Harding<Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Follow-up:
>
> On 17-Jul-09 12:38:27, Ted Harding wrote:
>> On a point of information: The licence in question:
>>
>> License: The software may be distributed free of charge and used
>>          by anyone if credit is given. It has been tested fairly
>>          well, but it comes with no guarantees and the authors
>>          assume no liability for its use or misuse.
>>
>> is verbatim from Joe Shafer's original licence for his NORM.
>> He used exactly the same wording for his packages CAT, MIX and PAN.
>> These were originally written in S, with FORTRAN code for many of
>> the functions. The various people who have ported these to R have
>> simply copied these words into the R packages. See (if you have
>> the packages installed)
>>   library(help=cat)
>>   library(help=norm)
>>   library)help=mix)
>>
>> I may have some comments about this "removed from CRAN" issue later,
>> but I need to think about them first ...
>>
>> Best wishes to all,
>> Ted.
>
> While Joe Shafer's MI software web page
>
>  http://www.stat.psu.edu/~jls/misoftwa.html
>
> as cited in the R help pages, still exists (though apparently still
> dating from 1999), only the Windows versions of NORM, CAT, MIX and PAN
> are still accessible. The link to the Unix versions:
>
> "S-PLUS for Unix:"  http://www.stat.psu.edu/~jls/splunix.html
>
> no longer leads anywhere (though it still did only a few years ago).

Its archived here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050212143644/http://www.stat.psu.edu/~jls/splunix.html