Bug#239631: ITP: r-other-gking-zelig -- a unified front-end for estimating statistical models in GNU R

2004-03-23 Thread Chris Lawrence
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: r-other-gking-zelig
  Version : 1.0-1
  Upstream Authors: Kosuke Imai [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gary King [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Olivia Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://gking.harvard.edu/zelig/
* License : GPL
  Description : A unified front-end for estimating statistical models in 
GNU R

The upstream authors describe Zelig (Everyone's Statistical
Software), in part, as follows:

With thousands of contributors who have written hundreds of packaged
routines, R can deal with nearly any statistical problem.  Although
this high level of participation may be its greatest strength, the
enormous diversity in approaches to statistical inference covered by R
often results in a virtual babel of competing functions and
inconsistent syntax.

To address these problems from a common perspective, we have created
Zelig, a single, easy-to-use program, with a unified framework and
syntax, that can estimate, help interpret, and present the results of
a large range of statistical methods. It literally _is_ everyone's
statistical software because Zelig uses R code from many researchers.
We also hope it will _become_ everyone's statistical software for
applications, and we have designed it so that anyone can use it or add
their methods to it.  Zelig comes with detailed, self-contained
documentation that minimizes startup costs for Zelig and R, automates
graphics and summaries for all models, and, with only three simple
commands required, generally makes the power of R accessible for all
users.  Zelig also works well for teaching, and is designed so that
scholars can use the same program they use for their research.

-- System Information:
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.3
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8



Bug#239631: ITP: r-other-gking-zelig -- a unified front-end for estimating statistical models in GNU R

2004-03-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:30:22PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote:
   Description : A unified front-end for estimating statistical models in 
 GNU R

Oh, one plea for my obsession with unified Descriptions:. Could we make 

   GNU R package providing a unified front-end for ...
   
or something like that?   
   
Dirk

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