[R] Splitting up the micEcon package?

[Millo Giovanni]

Dear Arne and Ott-Siim,

my personal opinion is that one single package is easiest both for the
useR who wants to keep track of the add-ins he might need and for the
maintainer(s) of the relevant Task Views. I'd prefer to have one single
micEcon as long as I know that I've to look there both for micro demand
models and for sample selection. Moreover, I feel they fit together
nicely from a broad econometric viewpoint (if this means anything).
Of course, if splitting the package up means easing the maintenance
burden in any way, we'll just keep track of one more package... :^) 

Best regards and many thanks for your effort
Giovanni

Giovanni Millo
Research Dept.,
Assicurazioni Generali SpA
Via Machiavelli 4, 
34131 Trieste (Italy)
tel. +39 040 671184 
fax  +39 040 671160 

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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:44:12 +0200
From: Arne Henningsen <ahenningsen at email.uni-kiel.de>
Subject: [R] Splitting up the micEcon package?
To: r-help at r-project.org
Cc: Ott-Siim Toomet <ott.toomet at ut.ee>
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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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