--- "Mark R. Diggory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phil Steitz wrote: > > I would be open to merging special with analysis, or making it a > > subpackage. > > I agree on the package structure, I'm a little hesitant to suggest > placing special and analysis together right now until its clearer what > the "scope" of each package would encompass.
Special includes numerical approximations to certain useful real-valued functions used to help numerically approximate distributions in the stat package. Both these, rootfinding and interpolation naturally belong to analysis. > > Wolfram categorizes these as > > Calculus and Analysis > Special Functions > Gamma Functions > > and > > Applied Mathematics > Numerical Methods > > so it may be good to retain separate categorization to describe the > scope of each package clearly. Keeping them separate means there room > for the implementations within those "scopes" to grow in the future > without any "major" refactoring or restructuring of the packages when > they get to big. What do you think? > > Also, I now think theres allot more consideration we could put into the > package structure that relates back to the scope and definition of the > implementations that are present there. It may be wise to review the > categorical structure of sites like wolframs and explore similar types > of organization as templates for package structuring. > I think it is best to think about how users, both mathematical and non-mathematical, will be able to find things. The proposed structure is a decent compromise between standard mathematical classification (which would replace "linear" with "algebra", for example) and what nonmathematical users might expect. I think it is workable. > -Mark > > > I would also like to change the name of "Freq" to "Frequency". It > > bothers me every time I look at this name, which is a throwback to SAS. > > I should have changed it before submitting the class, but I was too > > lazy to change my own code that depends on it. The name should be > > changed to be a full word. > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
