On 11 June 2009 at 14:11, Achim Zeileis wrote: | > Yesterday, I try to look at a CRAN task view on extreme value theory (EVT). | > Does anyone plan to do a CRAN task view on this topic? | | Not that I know of. | | > Packages related to this topic seem to be spread among finance, econometrics | > and social econometrics. | | Maybe more on the finance side...
I also think that we shouldn't get too granular. 20-some task views is fine, 200-some less so. But that is Achim's editorial call to make. | > Maybe this discussion could wait this july useR? | | Sure, we can talk, probably together with Dirk. I guess that the number | of packages for EVT is also not excessive so that we might be able to | include it in the Finance view. Agreed. Patches to the task view are always welcome. :-) Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
