Re: [rkward-devel] Many birds with the Zelig stone

2009-09-25 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, On Friday 25 September 2009, Michael Ash wrote: > An easy way to substantially expand the functionality of rkward would > be to enable access to the Zelig package. Zelig is itself an umbrella > interface to many of the statistical models in R. See > http://gking.harvard.edu/zelig/. Instead

Re: [rkward-devel] rkward import module for Stata

2009-09-25 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, On Friday 25 September 2009, Michael Ash wrote: > However, the "File name" box in import_stata will not accept URL's. I > do not know very much about KDE or xml, but I suspect that the > following line in import_stata.xml (borrowed from import_spss.xml) > specifies that only files, not URL's,

[rkward-devel] Many birds with the Zelig stone

2009-09-25 Thread Michael Ash
An easy way to substantially expand the functionality of rkward would be to enable access to the Zelig package. Zelig is itself an umbrella interface to many of the statistical models in R. See http://gking.harvard.edu/zelig/. Instead of laboriously coding interface for lots of models (lm, glm,

Re: [rkward-devel] rkward import module for Stata

2009-09-25 Thread Michael Ash
I have a question about modifying the file browser for the import_stata module. read.dta(), the R command that reads in Stata files, will accept URL's for the filename and read Stata data directly off the web. Try for example: mydata <- read.dta("http://courses.umass.edu/econ753/berndt/stata/ch