The release countdown for R 1.8.0 has now entered the beta phase. Apart from a change of name of the daily snapshots, this means that there we are now in feature freeze, i.e. we will not add features or change the API from now on. We will try to fix bugs and documentation errors though. The same thing is assumed for the group of recommended packages that we ship with the release. Code freeze is scheduled for next Wednesday. The beta versions are available from http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/R-1.8.0beta_2003-09-24.tar.gz and so forth. Like the alpha releases, they are created automatically at 5am local Wisconsin time. (The first one was done manually, a bit later, since yesterday's local events caused some disruption of plans...) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907