On 29 March 2012 14:26, Rodney Sparapani <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm just wondering whether it's deliberate that there aren't any log >> probability density functions in the GSL? > > That is a very good point. Many other packages like R allow you to return > the log-density rather than the density.
Yes, I use R lots as well--very useful for non-intensive bits of code. > This would be a good addition to > GSL. However, I see two problems. 1) as I understand it, > GSL is feature complete at this point. 2) after many years of great > stewardship, Brian Gough has stepped down as maintainer and no one > has stepped up. Yes, I saw the recent messages from Brian. I'm surprised nobody has suggested taking over, there must be quite a few users of the library! > So, you can either code your functions as a GSL > extension or maybe you just use the R math library directly. I tried using the R library, but I couldn't follow enough it well enough to make use of it; the GSL API seems better designed. Does anybody else have write access to the website where patches/pointers could be accumulated till somebody gets the motivation to integrate some of them? Sam
