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R Mathlib


From: Michael D Godfrey
Subject: R Mathlib
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:56:25 -0700
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While working on binopdf I noticed that there is a useful
collection of special functions in:


/*
 *  Mathlib : A C Library of Special Functions
 *  Copyright (C) 1998-2011  The R Development Core Team
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *  along with this program; if not, a copy is available at
 *  http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/
 */
============================================

Would it make sense to consider adopting this whole set into Octave
in a way that would make updates fairly automatic?   I know for sure that
at least the probability and statistics functions in this library are very good
and actively maintained by the R group.

I do not think that there are any copyright issues, but there could be compatibility
and other  items to consider.  The R view of compatibility with Matlab is quite different
from the Octave's.

If this were done, an accurate and fast binopdf would be "automatic."  Roughly,
binopdf would just call the C dbinom function.

Comments?

Michael




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