A note about searching methods: I find the sos package's findFn
features very handy. Try this:
install.packages("sos")
load("sos")
findFn("Hill extreme")
Looking at the first couple of packages DESCRIPTION files from their Index pages:
Package: fExtremes
Version: 2160.78
Revision: 5405
Date: 2012-11-30
Title: Rmetrics - Extreme Financial Market Data
Author: Diethelm Wuertz and many others, see the SOURCE file
Package: evir
Version: 1.7-3
Date: 2011-07-22
Title: Extreme Values in R
Authors@R: c(person("Bernhard", "Pfaff", email = "bernhard@pfaffikus.de", role = c("aut", "cre")),
person("Alexander", "McNeil", email = "mcneil@math.ethz.ch", role = "aut", comment = "S
original (EVIS)"), person("Alec", "Stephenson", email = "alec_stephenson@hotmail.com",
role = "trl", comment = "R port of EVIS"))
Those are credible names in the author lists. Are you having difficulties with either of those packages?