it's already in the VGAM package http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~yee/VGAM/
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulr...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > -- *A model is a lie that helps you see the truth.* * * Howard Skipper<http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/31/9/1173.full.pdf> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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