Dear all, I'm looking for users of the hyperSpec package for handling (hyper)spectral or spectroscopic data in R which I maintain. First of all, I made a few announcements concerning the further development which can be found in the hyperSpec-help mailing list an on which I hope to get user feedback: see http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/hyperspec-help/2012-July/thread.html. My second issue is: Once in a while I have to convince people (adminstration of the institute) that hyperSpec now has a considerable user base. Obviously, this is important for getting funding to go on with the development. It would be extremely helpful if the hyperSpec users among you could drop me a short email saying - what kind of spectroscopy you use hyperSpec for - where you are (country, if possible city and institution/company) Of course, I'll treat the answers confidentially and I won't use names etc. and I won't sell any information. The goal is to have a few slides (geographical distribution of users - always a nice and fancy thing to show, statistics on the kind of spectroscopy etc.) which I'll also put on the hyperSpec homepage so you can use them as well. Thanks a lot, Claudia Beleites hyperSpec.r-forge.r-project.org PS: please excuse if you get this request multiple times, I try to get to "my" users in different ways...