In principle a good idea, but I'm not sure the whereabouts of Catherine Loader are known at this point. Last peeps from her on the net seem to be about a decade old. .pd> On 18 May 2020, at 10:31 , Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a at gmail.com> wrote: > > This has come up before. > > Here's the last time: > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2019-March/077478.html > > I guess my answer to the following the question... > > Perhaps we should ask permission to > nail the thing down somewhere on r-project.org? > > ...would be, to reproduce it somewhere. > And then update the link in the binom help file. > > Given that the article was previously available freely (with no > apparent restrictions on reproducing it), and that the author has > significant published works which are open access, I'd be surprised if > there's any objection to reproducing it. > > > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 8:01 PM Koenker, Roger W <rkoenker at illinois.edu> wrote: >> >> FWIW the link from ?dbinom to the Loader paper on Binomials is broken but the paper seems to be >> available here: https://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/attachment/3829107/0/loader2000Fast.pdf >> >> Roger Koenker >> r.koenker at ucl.ac.uk<mailto:r.koenker at ucl.ac.uk> >> Honorary Professor of Economics >> Department of Economics, UCL >> Emeritus Professor of Economics >> and Statistics, UIUC >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel-- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
What about using the Wayback Machine archive ? The web archive should be more stable than other links which also might disappear in the future. E.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20070610002602/http://www.herine.net/stat/software/dbinom.html , which also links to an archived copy of the PDF. Best regards, Hilmar On 18.05.20 10:57, peter dalgaard wrote:> In principle a good idea, but I'm not sure the whereabouts of Catherine Loader are known at this point. Last peeps from her on the net seem to be about a decade old. > > .pd > >> On 18 May 2020, at 10:31 , Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This has come up before. >> >> Here's the last time: >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2019-March/077478.html >> >> I guess my answer to the following the question... >> >> Perhaps we should ask permission to >> nail the thing down somewhere on r-project.org? >> >> ...would be, to reproduce it somewhere. >> And then update the link in the binom help file. >> >> Given that the article was previously available freely (with no >> apparent restrictions on reproducing it), and that the author has >> significant published works which are open access, I'd be surprised if >> there's any objection to reproducing it. >> >> >> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 8:01 PM Koenker, Roger W <rkoenker at illinois.edu> wrote: >>> FWIW the link from ?dbinom to the Loader paper on Binomials is broken but the paper seems to be >>> available here: https://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/attachment/3829107/0/loader2000Fast.pdf >>> >>> Roger Koenker >>> r.koenker at ucl.ac.uk<mailto:r.koenker at ucl.ac.uk> >>> Honorary Professor of Economics >>> Department of Economics, UCL >>> Emeritus Professor of Economics >>> and Statistics, UIUC >>> >>> >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
On 18/05/2020 09:57, peter dalgaard wrote:> In principle a good idea, but I'm not sure the whereabouts of Catherine Loader are known at this point. Last peeps from her on the net seem to be about a decade old.All attempts to contact Dr Loader re the locfit package failed, including those earlier this year.> .pd > >> On 18 May 2020, at 10:31 , Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This has come up before. >> >> Here's the last time: >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2019-March/077478.html >> >> I guess my answer to the following the question... >> >> Perhaps we should ask permission to >> nail the thing down somewhere on r-project.org? >> >> ...would be, to reproduce it somewhere. >> And then update the link in the binom help file. >> >> Given that the article was previously available freely (with no >> apparent restrictions on reproducing it), and that the author has >> significant published works which are open access, I'd be surprised if >> there's any objection to reproducing it. >> >> >> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 8:01 PM Koenker, Roger W <rkoenker at illinois.edu> wrote: >>> >>> FWIW the link from ?dbinom to the Loader paper on Binomials is broken but the paper seems to be >>> available here: https://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/attachment/3829107/0/loader2000Fast.pdf >>> >>> Roger Koenker >>> r.koenker at ucl.ac.uk<mailto:r.koenker at ucl.ac.uk> >>> Honorary Professor of Economics >>> Department of Economics, UCL >>> Emeritus Professor of Economics >>> and Statistics, UIUC >>> >>> >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
>>>>> Hilmar Berger >>>>> on Mon, 18 May 2020 11:25:56 +0200 writes:> What about using the Wayback Machine archive ? The web archive should be > more stable than other links which also might disappear in the future. > E.g. > https://web.archive.org/web/20070610002602/http://www.herine.net/stat/software/dbinom.html > , which also links to an archived copy of the PDF. > Best regards, > Hilmar Thank you, Hilmar; I have been aware of the web.archive ... but I already had 3 (very slightly different) versions of the report on my computer (from "way back" ..). We've now added the "best" (and most recent, 2002) to the R-project website, and amended the 'Binomial' help page to include the new link: It now says (in R-devel and 'R 4.0.0 patched') : Source: For dbinom a saddle-point expansion is used: see Catherine Loader (2000). _Fast and Accurate Computation of Binomial Probabilities_; available as <URL: https://www.r-project.org/doc/reports/CLoader-dbinom-2002.pdf> Best regards, Martin > On 18.05.20 10:57, peter dalgaard wrote: >> In principle a good idea, but I'm not sure the whereabouts of Catherine Loader are known at this point. Last peeps from her on the net seem to be about a decade old. >> >> .pd >> >>> On 18 May 2020, at 10:31 , Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> This has come up before. >>> >>> Here's the last time: >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2019-March/077478.html >>> >>> I guess my answer to the following the question... >>> >>> Perhaps we should ask permission to >>> nail the thing down somewhere on r-project.org? >>> >>> ...would be, to reproduce it somewhere. >>> And then update the link in the binom help file. >>> >>> Given that the article was previously available freely (with no >>> apparent restrictions on reproducing it), and that the author has >>> significant published works which are open access, I'd be surprised if >>> there's any objection to reproducing it. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 8:01 PM Koenker, Roger W <rkoenker at illinois.edu> wrote: >>>> FWIW the link from ?dbinom to the Loader paper on Binomials is broken but the paper seems to be >>>> available here: https://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/attachment/3829107/0/loader2000Fast.pdf >>>> >>>> Roger Koenker >>>> r.koenker at ucl.ac.uk<mailto:r.koenker at ucl.ac.uk> >>>> Honorary Professor of Economics >>>> Department of Economics, UCL >>>> Emeritus Professor of Economics >>>> and Statistics, UIUC >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel