Dear R Community, I am pleased to announce that a new version of the mefa R package is available at the CRAN. mefa is a package for multivariate data handling in ecology and biogeography. It provides object classes to represent the data coded by samples, taxa and segments (i.e., subpopulations, repeated measures). It supports easy processing of the data along with relational data tables for samples and taxa. An object of class mefa is a project specific compendium of the dataset and can be easily used in further analyses. Methods are provided for extraction, aggregation, conversion, plotting, summary and reporting of mefa objects. Reports can be generated in plain text or LaTex. The current version has been published in JSS ( http://www.jstatsoft.org/v29/i08 ). The paper presents worked examples on a variety of ecological analyses. Best wishes, P?ter P?ter S?lymos, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G1 Canada email <- paste("solymos", "ualberta.ca", sep = "@") _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages