Hi, I filled a bug [1] and I tried to build a package without success. If there are no news in a while I'll try some to convince some package developers to add this distribution
[1] https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14936 Thanks for the feedback, Joan 2012/5/22 Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> > > [various snippage] > > also see > > library("sos") > findFn("dbetabin*") > > and > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8065835/ > proposing-feature-requests-to-the-r-core-team/8066062#8066062 > [url broken] > > for some context on why you should build a package instead > of trying to get a patch accepted in base R ... > > Ben Bolker > > > > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Joan Maspons > > > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > 2012/5/22 Christophe Dutang <dutangc <at> 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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]]
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