Is there an R-package to study Dirichlet before accounting data

Question

I am looking for an R package that can be used to train Dirichlet in front of counting data. I ask a colleague who uses R and does not use it myself, so I'm not too sure how to look for packages. It's a little hard to find, because "R" is such a non-specific search string. There seems to be nothing on the CRAN , but are there other places to watch?

Answer 1

I only met with R and the Dirichlet distribution, so I hope I'm not too sure about that.

This mailing list message seems to answer your question:

Scrolling through the results RSiteSearch ("dirichlet") offers some useful tools in the VGAM package. The gtools package and MCMC packages also have ddirichlet () functions that you could use to build the probability (negative log) of functions and optimize them using optim / nlmin / etc.

The deal, DPpackage and mix may or may not provide what you need.

Then again all these are CRAN packages, so I'm not sure if you already found them and found them unusable.

Regarding the search for R, the R project site already contains several links to its search page .