On 10/27/06, Wensui Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am so surprised to hear "gams is specialised in dealing with huge, > hevy-weight linear and non-linear modelling ". That is not what I know > of about GAM, which means generalized additive model.
That would be because the original question was not about GAM, but rather GAMS, which is a software package, not a single statistical technique. >From the web page (www.gams.com): The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) is a high-level modeling system for mathematical programming and optimization. It consists of a language compiler and a stable of integrated high-performance solvers. GAMS is tailored for complex, large scale modeling applications, and allows you to build large maintainable models that can be adapted quickly to new situations. I would guess that it's _possible_ to do all of the included analyses in R, but it most likely won't be as easy as in a prearranged commercial package. Sarah -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
