<div dir="auto">Just had a message from Brandon Greenwell saying he hopes to look into it after end of term. He's likely your best bet.<div dir="auto">Harry</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 Mar 2018 4:08 pm, "Andreas Tille" <<a href="mailto:andreas@an3as.eu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">andreas@an3as.eu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_531368783182367583quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Harry,<div class="m_531368783182367583quoted-text"><br>
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 02:41:28PM +0100, Harry Southworth wrote:<br>
> That post is about 2.5 years old and the version of gbm is 2.1.1.<br>
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That's correct. The original maintainer seems to have lost interest and<br>
I'm now trying to polish the list of bugs in any R package in Debian.<div class="m_531368783182367583quoted-text"><br>
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> The version on CRAN is now 2.1.3 but has status ORPHANED.<br>
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Thats the currently packaged version of gbm in Debian but I have no<br>
sign that the issue has changed (bug reporter is in CC).<div class="m_531368783182367583quoted-text"><br>
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> Since then, gbm maintenance got moved around a couple more times. You<br>
> can find it's current page here:<br>
> <a href="https://github.com/gbm-developers" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/gbm-developers</a><br>
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> To address, the question: I don't understand it.<br>
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Puh, that's relaxing for me since I do not understanding it as well. ;-)<div class="m_531368783182367583quoted-text"><br>
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> However, I do recall<br>
> that there were a number of known bugs in the multinomial<br>
> functionality and that that functionality was dropped from gbm3 (a<br>
> newer version, rewritten from the ground up, but whose development<br>
> appears to have stalled).<br>
><br>
> I've posted in GitHub, but don't know how likely it is that you'll get<br>
> a helpful response.<br>
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That's a very helpful response. I subscribed issue #21 and will wait<br>
for a better answer.<div class="m_531368783182367583quoted-text"><br>
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> Sorry not to be more helpful,<br>
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Thanks a lot for the quick response<br>
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Andreas.<br>
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Control: forwarded -1 <a href="https://github.com/gbm-developers/gbm/issues/21" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/gbm-developers/gbm/issues/21</a><div class="m_531368783182367583quoted-text"><br>
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> On 27 March 2018 at 13:27, Andreas Tille <<a href="mailto:andreas@an3as.eu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">andreas@an3as.eu</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Hello Harry,<br>
> ><br>
> > the R packaging team is maintaining gbm in Debian. A user has filed a<br>
> > bug report against version 2.1.1 which I would like to bring to your<br>
> > attention. Please have a look here where the problem is explicitly<br>
> > described:<br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/805395" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.debian.org/805395</a><br>
> ><br>
> > Could you please comment on this? I admit I do not fully understand<br>
> > what exactly is incorrect here and what to expect. May be some test<br>
> > case would help to confirm the integrity of the code.<br>
> ><br>
> > Kind regards<br>
> ><br>
> > Andreas.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Control: tags -1 help<br>
> > Control: forwarded -1 Harry Southworth <<a href="mailto:harry.southworth@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">harry.southworth@gmail.com</a>><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
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