Hi, following the release of R-1.4.0, new versions of the packages * exactRankTests (0.6-0) * mvtnorm (0.5-0) and * maxstat (0.5-2) are available on CRAN. Several changes to the user-interfaces were necessary (improvements, hopefully) and some new features are included, for example in `exactRankTests': * one- and two-sample permutation tests are available, * new interface to `pperm', * exact Hodges-Lehmann confidence intervals in `wilcox.exact' (PR#1150), * `perm.test' and `wilcox.exact' are generic and offer a formula interface. Major contributions came (and come) from Kurt Hornik, he is now co-author of `exactRankTests'. In `mvtnorm': * `{dr}mvnorm' moved from package `e1071' to `mvtnorm' (thanks to Fritz Leisch!), * `pmv{t}norm' has a slightly new interface: the length of lower, upper and mean are recycled to the length of the largest and it is possible to specify either the correlation or covariance matrix. In `maxstat': * `maxstat.test' is now generic and provides a formula interface as well as a print and plot method, * it depends on mvtnorm-0.5-0 and exactRankTests-0.6-0. Known bugs were fixed, see the CHANGES file in each of the packages for details. Torsten -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._