Alistair Campbell
2004-Feb-09 01:55 UTC
[R] Can S-Plus packages be used in R without modification?
Hi, I have had a quick search to see whether this question has been asked/answered before but haven't found anything directly related to it. Basically, I am wondering if I can run the packages, developed by Shafer for S-Plus, that allow multiple imputation of missing data - NORM, CAT, MIX, and PAN. If not, does anyone know if someone has done the modification that would make these packages available in R? And/or, does anyone know of other packages that facilitate multiple imputation of missing data that can be run from R? Cheers Alistair Campbell School of Psychology James Cook University Townsville QLD AUST
Dear Alistair, All of Shafer's packages have been ported to R and are on CRAN. There are also some facilities for multiple imputation in the Hmisc package, and in the mice package -- not on CRAN, but available at <http://www.multiple-imputation.com/>. There are probably other multiple imputation facilities in R of which I'm unaware. I hope that this helps, John At 11:55 AM 2/9/2004 +1000, Alistair Campbell wrote:>Hi, > >I have had a quick search to see whether this question has been >asked/answered before but haven't found anything directly related to it. > >Basically, I am wondering if I can run the packages, developed by Shafer >for S-Plus, that allow multiple imputation of missing data - NORM, CAT, >MIX, and PAN. > >If not, does anyone know if someone has done the modification that would >make these packages available in R? > >And/or, does anyone know of other packages that facilitate multiple >imputation of missing data that can be run from R?----------------------------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 email: jfox at mcmaster.ca phone: 905-525-9140x23604 web: www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox