[R] Splitting up the micEcon package?

[Robert Duval]

Dear Arne and Ott-Simm

It always seemed weird to me mixing demand and firm models with SSel.
models on a single package.

Separating them would seem the logical thing to do.

On the other hand, one more R package :/ , I´m not too big of a fan of
increasing this list ad infinitum.

My take on this is that it would be worth it to split it if you think
you´ll keep expanding the SSel. models under the new package.
Otherwise keep it the way it is.

I still dream of contributing a package that offers a group of SSel.
models under a wide variety of settings, but still haven´t found the
time to do so, nor it seems i´ll have it in the near future. On the
other hand, judging by the low number of replies it seems to me that
the audiece for SSel. in R is still quite limited.

My two cents,
greetings
robert


On 10/30/07, Arne Henningsen <ahenningsen at email.uni-kiel.de> wrote:
> 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
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> University of Kiel
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