R help - Sep 2010 - Error: could not find function "ad.test"

Hi,
I'm trying to run an anderson-darling test for normality on a given variable
'Y': 
ad.test(Y)

I think I need the 'nortest' package, but since it does not appear in
any of
the Ubuntu repositories for 2.10.1, I am wondering if it goes by the name of
something else now? 

Thanks
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Hi:

One option to search for functions in R is to download the sos package:

library(sos)
findFn('Anderson-Darling')

On my system (Win 7), it found 51 matches. The two likeliest packages are
nortest and ADGofTest. To answer your question, nortest still exists on
CRAN. I can't comment on Ubuntu, but it's possible you may have to
install
it manually from the gzip sources. I'm sure that others with hands-on Ubuntu
experience can provide a more complete answer.

HTH,
Dennis

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:42 AM, DrCJones <matthias.goddard@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to run an anderson-darling test for normality on a given
> variable
> 'Y':
> ad.test(Y)
>
> I think I need the 'nortest' package, but since it does not appear
in any
> of
> the Ubuntu repositories for 2.10.1, I am wondering if it goes by the name
> of
> something else now?
>
> Thanks
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> View this message in context:
>
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