Alan Miller's statistical software collection - gone?
Clive Page
Fortran routines for statistics and allied subjects at
http://users.bigpond.net.au/amiller
but for some days (at least) this has not been accessible, and though
Google has a cache, it does not seem to have any of the lower-level
pages containing the actual source code.
There seem to be a few other sites with a copy of his top-level page,
but not the source-code. I also found a reference to it linking to
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~milleraj/
but this doesn't work for me either.
Does anyone know what has happened to these - or, even better, did
anyone have the foresight to take a copy?
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Clive Page
Arjan
user1
baf
Not the same person.
Clive Page
<83e2defb-8375-4556...@v2g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
Arjan <arjan.v...@rivm.nl> writes
>http://www.linux.org.za/Lists-Archives/glug-9910/taril6NqGwFEf.tar
I untarred it, and got these files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 cgp cgp 57009 Dec 18 1997 90to77.ps.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 cgp cgp 2977 Dec 18 1997 restrict.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 cgp cgp 9206 Dec 18 1997 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 cgp cgp 2517 Dec 18 1997 versions.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 cgp cgp 29312 Jan 30 1999 libvast90.a.Z
-rw-r----- 1 cgp cgp 108691 Jan 30 1999 f90.Z
-rw-r----- 1 cgp cgp 82806 Mar 8 1999 vastf90.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 cgp cgp 2993 Apr 13 1999 README
-rw-r----- 1 cgp cgp 1811233 Apr 13 1999 vf90.Z
It doesn't look like what I was searching for - more like the somewhat
ancient Vast Fortran90 system. And f90.Z isn't a source code file, but
an executable of some sort.
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Clive Page
Arjan
Hmm. I seem to have goofed up! Sorry!
From the link I used there was a serious suggestion that the desired
sources were included, but of course I cannot find that link again. It
was in one of the discussions on the forum behind that link.
Alternatively, what about:
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/apstat/
The sources are in f77, but who cares...
A.
JB
The wayback machine seems to have the source codes as well.
HTH, HAND
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JB
Beliavsky
> For some years Alan Miller has maintained a very valuable site of
> but for some days (at least) this has not been accessible, and though
> Google has a cache, it does not seem to have any of the lower-level
> pages containing the actual source code.
>
> There seem to be a few other sites with a copy of his top-level page,
> but this doesn't work for me either.
>
> Does anyone know what has happened to these - or, even better, did
> anyone have the foresight to take a copy?
Yes, I used to correspond with Alan Miller, making minor suggestions
regarding his code, but in 2004 he informed me that he was ill and
could no longer maintain his site. I copied the HTML and Fortran
files, and they are now in a zip file miller_all.zip in the gg95 group
site http://groups.google.com/group/gg95 . Mr. Miller wrote at the
time that he would welcome mirrors of his site.
Clive Page
<0635b771-cf4a-46fc...@j28g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>,
Beliavsky <beli...@aol.com> writes
>Yes, I used to correspond with Alan Miller, making minor suggestions
>regarding his code, but in 2004 he informed me that he was ill and
>could no longer maintain his site. I copied the HTML and Fortran
>files, and they are now in a zip file miller_all.zip in the gg95 group
>site http://groups.google.com/group/gg95 . Mr. Miller wrote at the
>time that he would welcome mirrors of his site.
Thank you very much for doing that. It would be nice to reconstruct his
site to make it easier to extract the routines - when I get time maybe
I'll do that.
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Clive Page
Jason Blevins
Yes, Beliavsky, thank you for having the foresight to make that archive!
It would be a shame to loose such a valuable resource. I would most
definitely host a mirror. I emailed Mr. Miller to request permission,
but if for whatever reason I don't hear from him, I'll go ahead with it.
--
Jason Blevins
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics, Duke University
http://jblevins.org/
Jason Blevins
> definitely host a mirror. I emailed Mr. Miller to request permission,
He said it would be fine. I'll post a link here when it's ready.
Jason Blevins
http://jblevins.org/mirror/amiller/
It is slightly reformatted for improved navigation, and I've fixed a few
broken external links. There were also a couple of missing files in the
archive which I've tried to track down elsewhere (some that were on his
previous ozemail site but seem to have been missing from the bigpond
site). Otherwise, the code and descriptions are unmodified.
Alan indicated that he thinks bigpond is down permanently, so you may
want to consider updating any existing links. I'm more than happy to
keep this excellent site going for as long as possible.
Beliavsky
> I've created a mirror here:
>
> http://jblevins.org/mirror/amiller/
>
> It is slightly reformatted for improved navigation, and I've fixed a few
> broken external links. There were also a couple of missing files in the
> archive which I've tried to track down elsewhere (some that were on his
> previous ozemail site but seem to have been missing from the bigpond
> site). Otherwise, the code and descriptions are unmodified.
Great, thanks! Could you list the missing files? Maybe someone here
has copies.
Jason Blevins
I'm currently missing toms715.zip, toms726.zip, and toms819.zip. If
anyone has them, please email me.
I was missing about five other files, but I managed to find them in the
Wayback Machine. For some reason it didn't archive the TOMS zip files.
Tim Prince
>
> I'm currently missing toms715.zip, toms726.zip, and toms819.zip. If
> anyone has them, please email me.
Did you consider netlib.org ?
Jason Blevins
The original Fortran 77 versions are certainly there, but the files on
Alan Miller's site were versions of the TOMS algorithms that he
converted to Fortran 95. Those are the ones that I'm missing.
baf
> I've created a mirror here:
>
> http://jblevins.org/mirror/amiller/
>
> It is slightly reformatted for improved navigation, and I've fixed a few
> broken external links. There were also a couple of missing files in the
> archive which I've tried to track down elsewhere (some that were on his
> previous ozemail site but seem to have been missing from the bigpond
> site). Otherwise, the code and descriptions are unmodified.
>
> Alan indicated that he thinks bigpond is down permanently, so you may
> want to consider updating any existing links. I'm more than happy to
> keep this excellent site going for as long as possible.
>
Sorry for not responding sooner. I archived the entire site several
years ago, and have all of the files, including those that you indicate
are missing. I will email those "missing" to you so that your online
archive will be complete.
Jason Blevins
Thanks very much. I've received the files and updated the site. As far
as I can tell it is now complete, but if anyone else happens upon a 404,
please let me know.