Peter Ruckdeschel
2009-Apr-20 22:06 UTC
[R] [R-pkgs] New versions for the distr-family of packages
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New versions released for the distr family of package ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would like to announce the availability on CRAN (with possibly a minor delay until on every mirror) of new versions of our packages in the "distr"-family (version 2.1), i.e.; "distr", "distrEx", "distrSim", "distrTEst", "distrDoc", "distrMod", and "distrTeach", as well as our supporting package "startupmsg" and the new (supporting) package "SweaveListingUtils". [all of them require R >= 2.6.0] For details, please also refer to the NEWS file of the corresponding package, accessible via NEWS("<pkgname>") [after require(<pkgname>)] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Devel versions on r-forge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Development of these packages is done under r-forge project /distr/: http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/distr/ http://distr.r-forge.r-project.org/ If you find this project interesting and would like to collaborate, you are warmly welcome. You may find more information on how to collaborate under http://distr.r-forge.r-project.org/HOWTO-collaborate.txt We look forward to receiving questions, comments and suggestions Peter Ruckdeschel Matthias Kohl Below you find a list of major improvements in version 2.1: %--------------------------------------------- SweaveListingUtils: %--------------------------------------------- + a new package devoted to joining markup provided by TeX package 'listings' with Sweave; + also covers inclusion of code sniplets from an url (notably r-forge) in order to ease consistency of documentation with code that is being developed. see also ?lstinputSourceFromRForge and vignette "ExampleSweaveListingUtils" %--------------------------------------------- distr %--------------------------------------------- COMPOUND DISTRIBUTIONS + new support of compound distributions, see ?CompoundDistribution, class?CompoundDistribution ENHANCED ACCURACY + by log scale Following Peter Dalgaard's hint https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-September/174295.html we use the log.p argument to be able to simulate accurately from the far out tails. + refined collapsing technique for DiscreteDistribution + more frequent use of FFT for convolution by better treatment of joint lattices AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF IMAGE DISTRIBUTION + slot r is now /much/ faster / slimmer for results of *,/,^ + slot d for results of *,/, exp() now is correct at 0 by extrapolation COMFORT METHODS + getLow/getUp methods (for "reasonable" endpoints for distributions with possibly unbounded support) for *DiscreteDistribution, *AbscontDistribution, *UnivarLebDecDistribution, *UnivarMixingDistribution + q.r, p.l (methods for right continuous quantile function and left continuous cdf) for * DiscreteDistribution * AbscontDistribution (takes care of constancy regions in p) * UnivarLebDecDistribution * UnivarMixingDistribution + prob methods (returning vectors/matrices of probabilities of support) + DiscreteDistribution + UnivarLebDecDistribution (conditional/unconditional) + p.ac, d.ac, p.discrete, d.discrete methods (for UnivarLebDecDistribution) now conditional/unconditional %--------------------------------------------- distrEx %--------------------------------------------- FUNCTIONALS + expectation gains explicit arguments to set accuracy locally; + median and IQR are now defined for UnivariateCondDistribution + cross-checked (and bug-fixed) particular functionals against general implementations DISTRIBUTIONS + gains distribution Pareto; ported from pkg actuar by Nataliya Horbenko DISTANCES: + introduces distances asymmetric total variation distances *OAsymTotalVarDist *AsymTotalVarDist + TotalVarDist and HellingerDist gain extra arguments to better control the integration range and exactness %--------------------------------------------- distrMod %--------------------------------------------- MODELS + added mad.const to guarantee for mad-consistency in location scale model for general central distribution TRAFO + fixed some inconsistencies with slot trafo: now when trafo is a function, we try to keep it as a function under moves of the parametric model + trafo.fct() to access the "function" aspect of trafo + trafoEst() transforming an estimator of class "estimate" consistently by a "trafo" function ESTIMATION + enhanced Covariance calculation for CvMDist-MDE + modified output in show - Confint-class %--------------------------------------------- PLOTTING %--------------------------------------------- + enhanced automatic plotting range selection for distributions + ylim can now be matrix-valued giving panel-individual values + selection of panels to be plot by argument to.draw.arg + L2ParamFamily plot in distrMod is now as flexible as plot-methods in pkg distr + more flexible panel axis annotation %--------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: %--------------------------------------------- + updated large vignette "distr" in distrDoc + updated vignette "ExampleSweaveListingUtils" in pkg SweaveListingUtils + updated vignette "How to generate new distributions in packages distr, distrEx" in pkg distr + new section "Extension packages" in package-help to package distr, see ?distr %--------------------------------------------- LICENSE: %--------------------------------------------- - switched over to LGPL-3 _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages