Hello all,
The ann() function in the yaImpute package provides a more full featured
interface to the same underlying approximate nearest neighbor library
(http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/ANN) that is called by the nn() function
in knnFinder. knnFinder is actually calling an older (defunct) version
of the ANN library which was known to cause some segmentation faults.
I would be willing to adopt knnFinder, but it is now redundant with the
functions offered in yaImpute. But first a question -- Should we
maintain existing packages that have been superseded by other packages?
If so, then I'll adopt knnFinder, but if not then I suggest letting it go.
Kind regards-
Andy
On 14 Jan 2008, Roger Bivand wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Gregoire Pau wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have found some serious bugs in the knnFinder package (which
supports
> > data structures and algorithms for both exact and approximate nearest
> > neighbor searching in arbitrarily high dimensions) that may trigger
> > segmentation faults.
> > I have fixed them but I had troubles to contact its maintainer
Samuel E.
> > Kemp (previously with the University of Glamorgan, UK). Do someone
know
> > where I can reach him ?
>
> I have also tried, for the same reason, without result. He seems to have
> been a student who has now left the university where he wrote the
package.
> I also wrote to his apparent supervisor, also without result. My
> suggestion would be that the package be orphaned, and that if you are
> willing to replace it with your version, and to adopt it as maintainer,
> its posting on CRAN can be continued.
>
> Roger
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Greg
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> > EMBL/EBI Cambridge, UK
> > http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~gpau
> >
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