On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Joan Maspons <j.masp...@creaf.uab.cat> wrote: > Hello, > > 2012/5/22 Christophe Dutang <duta...@gmail.com> > >> Dear Joan, >> <snip> >> If you want to contribute to R, you should write a package and submit it >> to CRAN. See http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html >> > > It's necessary to develop a package before to add the functions to R-base? > I just want to add beta binomial and beta negative binomial distributions > which from my point of view are not more strange than distributions > included in R-base. I think they are quite common in order to simulate a > binomial or negative binomial process in an stochastic environment. > In order to add functions to the main R distribution, you have to convince someone on R-core to maintain the code.
> In the other hand I have no experience in writing packages so it would take > me more time. > The actuar package contains many additional distributions. You might see if the maintainer(s) would be interested in incorporating your code (if they don't have that functionality already). > Yours, > Joan > > Regards >> >> Christophe >> >> -- >> Christophe Dutang >> Ph.D. student at ISFA, Lyon, France >> website: http://dutangc.free.fr >> >> Le 22 mai 2012 à 12:14, Joan Maspons a écrit : >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > I implemented the Beta binomial distribution following the patterns of >> the >> > binomial distribution code and inspired by JAGS' code [1]. I have studied >> > the code carefully but it's my first run in the R internals. >> > >> > Can somebody review the code and if everything it's ok commit to the >> > repository? >> > >> > [1] >> > >> http://mcmc-jags.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/mcmc-jags/mcmc-jags/file/15af65a4be29/src/modules/bugs/distributions/DBetaBin.cc >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Joan Maspons >> > CREAF (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals) >> > Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), >> Catalonia >> > Tel +34 93 581 2915 j.masp...@creaf.uab.cat >> > http://www.creaf.uab.cat >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> > > > -- > Joan Maspons > CREAF (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals) > Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia > Tel +34 93 581 2915 j.masp...@creaf.uab.cat > http://www.creaf.uab.cat > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
