The Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics at the University of Washington will include a 2.5 day course in Advanced R Programming, on June 28-30. The course will cover object-oriented programming, SQL and netCDF data access, calling compiled code, creating R packages, and using some of the software infrastructure from the Bioconductor project. The instructors will be Thomas Lumley and Ken Rice. Further details on this and the other 21 modules at the Summer Institute are available from http://sisg.biostat.washington.edu/. I will just note that this is the University of Washington, in Seattle (not DC, or St Louis) and that June 28-30 is at the beginning of Seattle's non-rainy season -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle