[R] Development versions of xtractomatic and rerddapXtracto

2017-12-22 Thread Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
If you are a user of the R package "xtractomatic", I have a new development version available, as well as a test version of the package "rerddapXtracto". The biggest changes are functions that can take the output of any of the data download functions and quickly map the data. These functio

Re: [R] Fitting Beta Distribution

2017-12-22 Thread peter dalgaard
Stop right there and rethink! The normalization factor depends on the parameter that you are maximizing over. -pd > On 21 Dec 2017, at 11:29 , Lorenzo Isella wrote: > > In the code, dbeta1 is the density of the beta distribution for > shape1=shape2=shape. > In the code, dbeta2 is the same quan

[R] [R-pkgs] New package: nipals

2017-12-22 Thread Kevin Wright
I would like to announce the availability of the 'nipals' package on CRAN, https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nipals/. The nipals package tries to do just one thing really well...find principal components of a matrix using Nonlinear Partial Least Squares. Missing values are allowed, the princ