A new version, 6.3-1, of the VR bundle is now on CRAN and update.packages() should get it for you on Unix and Windows. The change in minor version number reflects a number of additions which are to support the 4th edition of `Modern Applied Statistics in S' (due in about August, and covering R as well as S-PLUS). (The scripts are still for MASS3; version 7.0 will have the scripts for MASS4.) Some of the recent changes: MASS: - new function fitdistr for ML estimation of univariate distributions. - new function glmmPQL to use lme to fit GLMMs by PQL. - truehist allows rule for nbins to be specified as a character string. - parcoord function. - new datasets bacteria, epil, nlschools, SP500 class: - batchSOM and ancilliary functions. -- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._