[R] Seeking well-commented versions of mgcv source code

[Jeff Newmiller]

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On May 2, 2014 7:15:27 PM PDT, Andrew Crane-Droesch <andrewcd at gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>I'm looking for well-commented versions of various functions comprising
>
>mgcv, so that I can modify a piece of it for a project I'm working on. 
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>In particular I'm looking for
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>  * testStat
>  * summary.gam
>  * liu2
>  * simf
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>Obviously I can find these by typing mgcv:::whatever.  But there are a 
>lot of nested if statements, making it difficult to follow. Comments in
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>the code describing exactly what is happening at each step would make
>my 
>life a lot easier.
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>Where can I find more-detailed versions of the code?
>
>Thanks,
>Andrew
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