R-Package "distrDoc"

Version: 2.0.3
Release Date: 2008-11-27
Authors: Peter Ruckdeschel, Matthias Kohl, Thomas Stabla, Florian Camphausen
Required R-Version:

>=2.6.0 for version 2.0.3,
>=2.2.0 for version 1.8-2.0,

Dependencies: requires packages "tools" (standard package) as well as "startupmsg" by Peter Ruckdeschel also available from CRAN;

What is "distrDoc" meant for?

The aim of package "distrDoc" is to provide a common documentation in form of a vignette "distr" to the distrXXX-package family.
Currently this family comprises packages distr, distrEx, distrSim, distrTEst, distrMod, distrTeach,
You may use it e.g. as:

        require("distrDoc"); V<-vignette("distr"); print(V); edit(V)

License

This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL
PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991, confer http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Download

Windows

for version >= 2.0 use

install.packages("distr", repos = "R-Forge.R-project.org")

as Win-Zip-File for R >=2.2.0 (Version 1.9)
as Win-Zip-File for R >=2.2.0 (Version 1.8)

to be installed by
- the R-gui File picker [Packages ->Install package(s) from local zip-files...] or
- ```
install.packages("distrDoc", <path to the file distrDoc.zip in your File system>, NULL)
```
to be removed by
```
remove.packages("distrDoc")
```

to be used by

library("distrDoc")

require("distrDoc")

Linux

for version >= 2.0 use

install.packages("distr", repos = "R-Forge.R-project.org")

as Linux-tar-gz-File for R >=2.2.0 (Version 1.9)
as Linux-tar-gz-File for R >=2.2.0 (Version 1.8)

to be installed by
```
R CMD INSTALL distrDoc_1.x.tar.gz
```
to be removed by
```
R CMD REMOVE distrDoc
```
to be used as under Windows

Version history:

First version (1.8) (2006-11-20)

starting version; also see NEWS("distrDoc")

Changes from Version 1.8 to 1.9

registration of the vignette with Windows gui according to https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2007-June/001171.html
in R-code in the vignette, made calls to uniroot(), integrate(), optim(ize)() compliant to https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-May/045791.html l
mentioned in package-help: startup messages may now also be suppressed by suppressPackageStartupMessages() (from package 'base')
added chunk
```
\SweaveOpts{keep.source=TRUE} 
```
to keep comments and linebreaks in source
included some documentation about new classes "LatticeDistribution" and "Lattice"

Changes from 1.9 to 2.0

TEMPLATE

Changes from 2.0 to 2.0.3

TEMPLATE

Our plans for the next version:

Things we invite other people to do

This page is maintained by Peter Ruckdeschel and Thomas Stabla and last updated on 2008-11-27.