[R] VGAM package : Frechet distribution - 2 parameter estimation

2014-11-06 Thread Katherine Gobin
Dear R forum, I am trying to execute following code (Page no 259 - VGAM.pdf) # . library(VGAM) set.seed(123) fdata - data.frame(y1 = rfrechet(nn - 1000, shape = 2 + exp(1)))

Re: [R] VGAM package : Frechet distribution - 2 parameter estimation

2014-11-06 Thread Michael Dewey
On 06/11/2014 06:04, Katherine Gobin wrote: Dear R forum, I am trying to execute following code (Page no 259 - VGAM.pdf) # . library(VGAM) set.seed(123) fdata -

Re: [R] VGAM package : Frechet distribution - 2 parameter estimation

2014-11-06 Thread Katherine Gobin
Dear Mr Michael, Thanks a lot for your guidance. The pdf file describing VGAM package has mentioned 'frechet' in the example, so I got the error. Regards Katherine On Thursday, 6 November 2014 2:54 PM, Michael Dewey i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk wrote: On 06/11/2014 06:04, Katherine Gobin

Re: [R] VGAM package : Frechet distribution - 2 parameter estimation

2014-11-06 Thread Rolf Turner
Dear Ms. Gobin, There would appear to be a typo in the package manual that appears on CRAN. Doing ?Frechet (it would be nice to have this aliased also to frechet) points you immediately to frechet. With frechet2 substituted for frechet your code, everything works. cheers, Rolf Turner

Re: [R] VGAM package : Frechet distribution - 2 parameter estimation

2014-11-06 Thread Thomas Yee
Hello, a day or two ago I submitted VGAM 0.9-5 to CRAN, which has myriads of changes to family functions---their names, their arguments, and their order thereof. Especially regarding family functions for discrete and continuous distributions. In a nutshell, I found lots of inconsistencies while