This is an announcement of a new package of R 1.6.2 built for VineLinux2.6, which is RedHat based distribution integrated with Japanese environment. VineLinux users can download the source and binary package for i386 from CRAN (http://www.r-project.org/). Although the VineLinux can work on i386 family, alpha, ppc, arm, ia64, aparc and ps2, only i386 package is ready now. -- Susumu Tanimura stanimura-ngs at umin.ac.jp