(1) We've been unable to contact the maintainer to find out when the official release of R 1.4.0 on Windows might be available. As the holidays shutdown is looming, last night I built a binary distribution from the released sources and put the SetupR.exe and miniR* versions at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/ (This has the post-release mgcv_0.6-2.) This is not the official release, so problem reports to me only, please. (I'd be interested to hear, but am unlikely to be able to change anything until 2002.) (2) The bin/windows/contrib section on CRAN has been updated to include the 1.4.0 versions of packages. (On TUWien now, mirrored elsewhere soon.) This means that update.packages() will pick up the latest versions. Some of these may not work with rw1031 (VR and grid for sure, maybe others). -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._