[R] Splitting up the micEcon package?

[Arne Henningsen]

Dear R Users:

The functions of our "micEcon" package [1,2] can be subdivided into three 
categories:
- microeconomic demand and firm models
- sample selection models (mainly selection())
- routines for (likelihood) maximisation (e.g. maxLik(), maxNR(), maxBHHH())
   (mainly used for ML estimation of sample selection models)

Although sample selection models are often used in microeconomic analyses, 
they are also used in several other disciplines. Therefore, we are unsure 
whether it is better to keep these different functionalities in the micEcon 
package or to move the sample selection models and the routines for 
(likelihood) maximisation into one or two new package(s) (increasing the long 
list of R packages even further).
What is the recommendation of the R community?

Thank you,
Ott & Arne

Note: We have asked this question already on R-devel five days ago [3], 
but we did not receive an answer yet.

References:
[1] http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/micEcon.html
[2] http://www.micecon.org/
[3] http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e3/devel/07/10/0222.html

-- 
Arne Henningsen
Department of Agricultural Economics
University of Kiel
Olshausenstr. 40
D-24098 Kiel (Germany)
Tel: +49-431-880 4445
Fax: +49-431-880 1397
ahenningsen at agric-econ.uni-kiel.de
http://www.uni-kiel.de/agrarpol/ahenningsen/
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