Sorry for the late reply. I've been extremely busy, out of town, etc. lately. I wrote the core algorithm for this function back in 2010, but did not make any attempt to integrate it into R-base, for several reasons:
1. I was having difficulty figuring out what all the missing value options (which I never use) are supposed to do and how to efficiently adapt my code to them. 2. The cor() function (IIRC; this is from memory from over a year ago) implements Pearson, Spearman and Kendall very messily all in one function. I felt that this could use some refactoring to make the integration of a new Kendall algorithm sane, but didn't know the codebase well enough to do it myself w/o a significant learning curve. 3. Testing the integration would require setting up a build environment for R. Basically, I wanted to contribute this algorithm but didn't want to go through the necessary learning curve to become a regular R-base contributor. I was hoping the integration work would be trivial to someone who contributes to this codebase regularly. On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 12-06-25 2:48 PM, Adler, Avraham wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> Has any further action been taken regarding implementing David Simcha's >> fast Kendall tau code (now found in the package pcaPP as cor.fk) into >> R-base? It is literally hundreds of times faster, although I am uncertain >> as to whether he wrote code for testing the significance of the parameter. >> The last mention I have seen of this was in 2010<https://stat.ethz.ch/** >> pipermail/r-devel/2010-**February/056745.html<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-February/056745.html> >> >. >> > > You could check the NEWS file, but I don't remember anything being done > along these lines. If the code is in a CRAN package, there doesn't seem to > be any need to move it to base R. > > Duncan Murdoch > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
