Re: [Rd] Creating RPMs for Packages

This may get delayed as I am away from my usual mail system. Since (thanks to Dirk and Charles) there is the cran2deb project giving us most R packages in debian package format, could the alien package help? See http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/RPM-for-Unix-HOWTO-8.html John Nash

Re: [Rd] sources of code; was Generate random numbers in Fortran

Ben Bolker gives some reasons why Numerical Recipes may be problematic as a starting point for R codes. CUP did a masterful job of marketing, but the license is restrictive as the links he gives points out. In some tests, I've also noted that some of the algorithms are less than stellar e.g,

[Rd] Use of cfortran.h?

I'm planning to try to use Mike Powell's new BOBYQA optimization routine to see if it is a good candidate to eventually replace Nelder-Mead as the optim() default. (Don't panic -- this won't happen quickly.) Mike writes f77 code. After some chasing about, I've realized that because optimization