First, thanks to Steve Su, Jason
Overstreet, and Harry Southworth for answering my email. Harry provided the
link below to the CSAN packages. For those of you who do not know about this
site, it is an absolute treasure. Check it out. It does indeed look like the ismev
package has what I need: gev.fit and a couple other gev functions for S-Plus
adapted from R. However, I cannot get it to install on my system. There is an S-PLUS
8 Guide to Packages pdf file on the main page that describes how to use
install.packages() to install the packages. The package pkgutils must be
installed first using install.pkgutils(), which I did. The Guide uses rpart as
an example package to download and work with. I followed the same steps with
ismev, but got the warning messages:
>
install.packages("ismev")
The downloaded packages are in C:\DOCUME~1\wclamber\LOCALS~1\Temp\di0381A1.tmp\downloaded_packages
Warning messages:
1: argument 'lib' is missing:
using C:\Documents and Settings\wclamber\Application
Data\Insightful\splus80_WIN386\library in: install.packages("ismev")
2: unable to move temporary
installation 'C:\Documents and Settings\wclamber\Application Data\Insightful\splus80_WIN386\library\fi038282.tmp\ismev'
to 'C:\Documents and Settings\wclamber\Application
Data\Insightful\splus80_WIN386\library\ismev' in: unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2],
foundpkgs[okp, 1], lib, installWithVers)
I get the same error by
downloading the ismev file and trying to install it from my PC. It says “argument
lib is missing”, but I don’t know what value to give that argument – there is
not an example like it in the Guide. I stepped through the rpart example and it
worked like the Guide said, so there is something different about ismev. Anyone
have an idea how to work around this? I really need the ismev package. Thanks
Win Crawford
From: Southworth, Harry
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Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 4:15 AM
To: Crawford.Winnie
Subject: RE: [S] GEV distribution
The ismev package might help you. It's on page 4 of CSAN
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Subject: [S] GEV distribution
I am using S-PLUS 8 on a Windows XP PC
Is there a function(s) in S-PLUS that will determine the
location, scale, and shape parameters for the generalized extreme value (GEV)
distribution? I’ve been using the robust library for gamma, weibull, and
lognormal, but don’t see an option for the GEV anywhere. Thanks.
Win
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