[R] obsolete(?) nls package

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12-03-05 7:08 PM, John C Nash wrote:
> I am building some tools to carry out nonlinear least squares when the residuals are very
> small (something that nls specifically is NOT designed to do). However, I wanted to put a
> cross reference in the Rd file. Running R CMD check pkg gave a strange warning
>
>    Obsolete package(s) 'nls' in Rd xrefs.
>
> Has nls been deprecated? I suspect not, but clearly the warning is of interest.

nls() is a function in the stats package.  Many years ago there was a 
separate package with that name, but it was merged into stats in version 
1.9.0.

Duncan Murdoch