We have just published the fourth issue 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. This is the first special issue of R News, with an emphasis on applying R in medical statistics. It is special in many ways: first, it took longer to prepare than we had originally antipicated (which typically seems to happen for special issues). Second, the newsletter file is rather large as there are many exciting images---in fact, in trying to keep the size reasonable, in some cases images are only included at a lower resolution, with the ``real stuff'' available from the respective authors' web pages. And finally, articles are fewer but longer: as many of the applications described are based on recent advances in medical technology, we felt that extra space with background information was warranted. Contents: Reading foreign files Maximally selected rank statistics in R. Quality control and early diagnostics for cDNA microarrays. Bioconductor. AnalyzeFMRI: An R package for the exploration and analysis of MRI and fMRI datasets. Using R for the analysis of DNA microarray data. Changes in R Changes on CRAN which makes a total of 41 pages. 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._