Hello all, The ann() function in the yaImpute package provides a more full featured interface to the same underlying approximate nearest neighbor library (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/ANN) that is called by the nn() function in knnFinder. knnFinder is actually calling an older (defunct) version of the ANN library which was known to cause some segmentation faults.
I would be willing to adopt knnFinder, but it is now redundant with the functions offered in yaImpute. But first a question -- Should we maintain existing packages that have been superseded by other packages? If so, then I'll adopt knnFinder, but if not then I suggest letting it go. Kind regards- Andy On 14 Jan 2008, Roger Bivand wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Gregoire Pau wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I have found some serious bugs in the knnFinder package (which supports > > data structures and algorithms for both exact and approximate nearest > > neighbor searching in arbitrarily high dimensions) that may trigger > > segmentation faults. > > I have fixed them but I had troubles to contact its maintainer Samuel E. > > Kemp (previously with the University of Glamorgan, UK). Do someone know > > where I can reach him ? > > I have also tried, for the same reason, without result. He seems to have > been a student who has now left the university where he wrote the package. > I also wrote to his apparent supervisor, also without result. My > suggestion would be that the package be orphaned, and that if you are > willing to replace it with your version, and to adopt it as maintainer, > its posting on CRAN can be continued. > > Roger > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Greg > > --- > > Gregoire Pau > > EMBL/EBI Cambridge, UK > > http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~gpau > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > -- > Roger Bivand > Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of > Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, > Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Andrew Finley, PhD Natural Resources Building Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1222 Phone: 517-432-7219 Fax: 517-432-1143 web: http://blue.for.msu.edu ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
