Dear Arne and Ott-Siim, my personal opinion is that one single package is easiest both for the useR who wants to keep track of the add-ins he might need and for the maintainer(s) of the relevant Task Views. I'd prefer to have one single micEcon as long as I know that I've to look there both for micro demand models and for sample selection. Moreover, I feel they fit together nicely from a broad econometric viewpoint (if this means anything). Of course, if splitting the package up means easing the maintenance burden in any way, we'll just keep track of one more package... :^)
Best regards and many thanks for your effort Giovanni Giovanni Millo Research Dept., Assicurazioni Generali SpA Via Machiavelli 4, 34131 Trieste (Italy) tel. +39 040 671184 fax +39 040 671160 ################# Original message: Message: 34 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:44:12 +0200 From: Arne Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [R] Splitting up the micEcon package? To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Ott-Siim Toomet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear R Users: The functions of our "micEcon" package [1,2] can be subdivided into three categories: - microeconomic demand and firm models - sample selection models (mainly selection()) - routines for (likelihood) maximisation (e.g. maxLik(), maxNR(), maxBHHH()) (mainly used for ML estimation of sample selection models) Although sample selection models are often used in microeconomic analyses, they are also used in several other disciplines. Therefore, we are unsure whether it is better to keep these different functionalities in the micEcon package or to move the sample selection models and the routines for (likelihood) maximisation into one or two new package(s) (increasing the long list of R packages even further). What is the recommendation of the R community? Thank you, Ott & Arne Note: We have asked this question already on R-devel five days ago [3], but we did not receive an answer yet. References: [1] http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/micEcon.html [2] http://www.micecon.org/ [3] http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e3/devel/07/10/0222.html -- Arne Henningsen Department of Agricultural Economics University of Kiel Olshausenstr. 40 D-24098 Kiel (Germany) Tel: +49-431-880 4445 Fax: +49-431-880 1397 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uni-kiel.de/agrarpol/ahenningsen/ #################### Ai sensi del D.Lgs. 196/2003 si precisa che le informazi...{{dropped:13}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
