Software Development

Zelig version 5.1–1 is now available for download from CRAN!

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Zelig has had a hard time with unordered factor-level independent variables recently. From 5.0–13 setx just didn’t work with factors at all, e.g.:

library(Zelig)

z.out <- zelig(Petal.Width ~ Petal.Length + Species, data = iris, model = "ls")
x.out <…

In a previous post I discussed the goal to improve Zelig’s tests. A related goal that I’m also focusing on is improve Zelig’s documentation. Clear documentation enables:

• users to easily use Zelig in their…

The title explains it all. Many of these are taken from with slight modifications from The Unix Philosophy.

Last week (9 January 2017) I started working as a research associate at IQSS, Harvard University. I’m initially tasked with maintaining and expanding the Zelig R package.

Zelig is an ambitious package. It has the goal to be “Everyone’s Statistical…