On Mon, 15 May 2000, M. Angel Arranz wrote:
> Dear R people
>
> I must estimate a linear model with the L1 norm. S-Plus includes the l1fit
Why? (Is this a homework?) There are lots of things wrong with l1 norm
solutions.
> command that performs exactly what I need, but I do not know how to do it
> in R. I checked the ''lqs'' library, but it was not
included there. Do you
> how to estimate it with R?
Check out the quantreg package on CRAN for a *much* comprehensive solution.
Also, you could use rlm() in library MASS with k \approx 0, but k \approx 1
is a much better idea.
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