We have just published the second volume of R News on http://cran.R-project.org/doc/Rnews where you can download the newsletter as PDF or postscript file. It will propagate to the CRAN mirrors within a day or two.. Contents: Changes in R Changes on CRAN Date-Time Classes Installing R under Windows Spatial Statistics in R geoR: A Package for Geostatistical Analysis Simulation and Analysis of RAndom Fields mgcv: GAMs and Generalized Ridge Regression for R What's the Point of `tensor'? On Multivariate t and Gau? Probabilities in R Programmer's Niche Recent Events which makes a total of 32 pages of features, applications and riddles about our favourite data analysis environment. Enjoy reading! For the editorial board, Fritz Leisch -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._