I asked Prof. Brian Ripley if I might submit some text/input for the R-intro writers, he said this is the place to do it. I was on a plane a couple of weeks ago reading R-intro as I plan for a course and made these notes, some of which I think will help my students if you incorporate them. I've attached a raw text file I wrote in Emacs to this message "Rintrochanges.txt". I have written documents like R-intro before and understand it is difficult to please everybody, and I thank you for your effort on the project. Paul Johnson Assoc. Professor Dept. of Political Science University of Kansas