We have published the 2003/1 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. Contents of this issue: Name Space Management for R Converting Packages to S4 The genetics Package Variance Inflation Factors 13 Building Microsoft Windows Versions of R and R packages under Intel Linux Analysing Survey Data in R Computational Gains Using RPVM on a Beowulf Cluster R Help Desk Book Reviews Changes in R 1.7.0 Changes on CRAN Crossword Recent Events For the editorial board, Fritz Leisch