R help - Sep 2015 - [FORGED] cumulative distribtuion function for multinomial distribution in R

On 29 Sep 2015, at 04:16 , Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> On 29/09/15 14:58, li li wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>   In R, is there a function for the cumulative distribution function
>> for multinomial distribution? I only see pmultinom and rmultinom which
>> are the prabability mass function and the function for generating
>> multinomial random variables respectively.
> 
> A moment's Googling would have led you to pmvnorm in package
"mvtnorm".
A moment spent with a cup of strong coffee would have led you to realize that
multinomial and multivariate normal are two different things....  ;-)

- pd
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf Turner
> 
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On 30/09/15 01:35, peter dalgaard wrote:
>
> On 29 Sep 2015, at 04:16 , Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:
>
>> On 29/09/15 14:58, li li wrote:
>>> Hi all, In R, is there a function for the cumulative distribution
>>> function for multinomial distribution? I only see pmultinom and
>>> rmultinom which are the prabability mass function and the
>>> function for generating multinomial random variables
>>> respectively.
>>
>> A moment's Googling would have led you to pmvnorm in package
>> "mvtnorm".
>
> A moment spent with a cup of strong coffee would have led you to
> realize that multinomial and multivariate normal are two different
> things....  ;-)

Yeah, well, some brains would help too.

Be that as it were, did you see my follow-up post in respect of the 
(actually relevant) MFSAS package and it's "orphaned" (or not)
status?

The package (source version in the Archives) seems to be basically OK. 
Did the maintainer just disappear off the face of the earth?

According to my reading of the README, this should instigate an 
"orphaned" annotation in the DESCRIPTION file, but there doesn't
seem to
be one.

cheers,

Rolf

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Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
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I know exactly this:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MFSAS/index.html

As I understand things (but I am not a CRAN maintainer): This is compatible with
a situation where the maintainer exists but doesn't update the package. I
think a package only gets to orphaned status if the maintainer steps down or
disappears.

-pd
> On 29 Sep 2015, at 22:44 , Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:
> 
> On 30/09/15 01:35, peter dalgaard wrote:
>> 
>> On 29 Sep 2015, at 04:16 , Rolf Turner <r.turner at
auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 29/09/15 14:58, li li wrote:
>>>> Hi all, In R, is there a function for the cumulative
distribution
>>>> function for multinomial distribution? I only see pmultinom and
>>>> rmultinom which are the prabability mass function and the
>>>> function for generating multinomial random variables
>>>> respectively.
>>> 
>>> A moment's Googling would have led you to pmvnorm in package
>>> "mvtnorm".
>> 
>> A moment spent with a cup of strong coffee would have led you to
>> realize that multinomial and multivariate normal are two different
>> things....  ;-)
> 
> 
> Yeah, well, some brains would help too.
> 
> Be that as it were, did you see my follow-up post in respect of the
(actually relevant) MFSAS package and it's "orphaned" (or not)
status?
> 
> The package (source version in the Archives) seems to be basically OK. Did
the maintainer just disappear off the face of the earth?
> 
> According to my reading of the README, this should instigate an
"orphaned" annotation in the DESCRIPTION file, but there doesn't
seem to be one.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf
> 
> -- 
> Technical Editor ANZJS
> Department of Statistics
> University of Auckland
> Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
-- 
Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com