After taking much longer than I had hoped, the Hmisc library version 1.0 is now available for Linux/Unix/Windows. The web page for Hmisc is http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/Hmisc.html from which you can download the ready-to-install package. See http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/help/Hmisc/html/Overview.html for an overview of the library. R users will be particularly interested in the semi-advanced LaTeX table-making functions by Heiberger and Harrell, and in sas.get, summary.formula (for moderate-level table making and graphical summaries), summarize, and extensions to Lattice graphics that allow for error bars, bands, filled bands, and automatic legend drawing. There are many utility functions, such as labcurve for labeling curves where they are most separated or for drawing legends in the most empty region of a plot. There are many high-level and some low-level graphics functions and some sample size/power functions. The Design library will not be far behind. For both libraries, the last things to work will be the examples, as my help files currently contain much example code and its printed output that will not execute. Please send error reports directly to me, with simple examples causing failure if possible. I wish to thank several people who, besides the helpful group of R-core members, assisted in porting the Hmisc library to R: Xiao Gang Fan <xiao.gang.fan1 at libertysurf.fr> kindly creates Windows distributions of the library from my Linux/Unix version. Patrick Connolly <P.Connolly at hortresearch.co.nz> wrote an R version of the print.char.matrix function that allows the summary.formula function to print boxed tables. Patrick's function will be of general interest to many users [in S-Plus, print.char.matrix is used to print the output from crosstabs]. Paul Murrell <paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz> wrote the grid package and Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan at stat.wisc.edu> wrote the lattice package. Paul and Deepayan displayed amazing patience in answering many of my questions, and they made imrovements in their packages to allow me to better use them in Hmisc. Don MacQueen <macq at llnl.gov> provided major fixes to sas.get for R for POSIX date, time, and date/time variables and for use of scan. Peter Malewski <malewski.peter at mh-hannover.de> and Tom Short <TShort at epri-peac.com> provided information about several errors in a pre-release of Hmisc. Thanks to all developers and contributors to R. Sincerely, Frank Harrell -- Frank E Harrell Jr Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences U. Virginia School of Medicine http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._