A nice free software with a GUI-interface (which can be linked to R, BTW) is GRETL: http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ . Some people may find it useful for basic stuff. Regards, Francisco. -- Francisco Cribari-Neto voice: +55-81-32718420 Departamento de Estatistica fax: +55-81-32718422 Universidade Federal de Pernambuco e-mail: cribari at de.ufpe.br Recife/PE, 50740-540, Brazil web: www.de.ufpe.br/~cribari/ "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." P.Picasso -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._