Nonparametric kernel smoothing methods for mixed data types CRAN Task View: Econometrics (http://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Econometrics) This package provides a variety of nonparametric (and semiparametric) kernel methods that seamlessly handle a mix of continuous, unordered, and ordered factor data types. We would like to gratefully acknowledge support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC:www.nserc.ca), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC:www.sshrc.ca), and the Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET:www.sharcnet.ca). Software Depends: boot, cubature Suggests: quantreg, MASS Jeffrey S. Racine <racinej@mcmaster.ca> Tristen Hayfield <hayfield@mpia.de>, Jeffrey S. Racine <racinej@mcmaster.ca> GPL 2012-03-06 application/tgz http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=np