On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ernesto Jardim wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 18:59, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > Which version of MASS (not that you gave me any credit)? This works in > > the current 7.1-14. > > > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Ernesto Jardim wrote: > > > > > I'm trying fitdistr but I'm getting some errors > > > > > > > fitdistr(rnorm(100),"Normal") > > > Error in fitdistr(rnorm(100), "Normal") : 'start' must be a named list > > > > fitdistr(rnorm(100),"Normal",start=list(mean=0,sd=1)) > > > Error in fitdistr(rnorm(100), "Normal", start = list(mean = 0, sd = 1)) > > > : > > > supplying pars for the Normal is not supported > > > > > > > > > What is the problem here ? Am I doing something wrong ? > > Hi, > > I'm using R-1.8.1 with MASS 7.1-13. Sorry for not mentioning MASS.
It was a bug in that version (only, AFAICS -- 7.1-12 required start values). Please update to 7.1-14. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
