R help - Jun 2003 - Hmisc and Design Packages

New versions of the Hmisc and Design packages, including ones for Windows, may
be found at http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/library/r

Thanks as always to Xiao Gang Fan <xiao.gang.fan1 at libertysurf.fr> for
providing the Windows ports.

In Hmisc, new features for multiple imputation have been added to aregImpute and
LaTeX and plot methods have been improved for summary.formula objects.  New
functions spss.get and sasxport.get have been added to enhance how SPSS and SAS
transport files are imported using the foreign package.  Variable labels, value
labels, date, time and date/time variables are handled.  Various bugs have been
fixed in Design, and a new fitting function glsD (Design's version of the
nlme generalized least squares function gls) has been added as has the univarLR
function.  glsD has an experimental cluster bootstrap option for nonparametric
estimation of covariance matrices of regression coefficient estimates with
repeated measures.  Details of changes along with installation instructions may
be found at http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/s/Hmisc.html and .../Design.html.

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Frank E Harrell Jr              Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
U. Virginia School of Medicine  http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat

Two Debian packages for Hmisc and Design have been created and are currently
available at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/debian/misc/ along with the 
package sources.  I may upload these to the Debian archive as well.

Feedback is, as always, welcome.

Dirk

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