It is interesting how things have changed -- 5 weeks later, I review materials collected at the JSM, and notice that Springer-Verlag's glossy statistics catalog has 3 of 9 books on the front page directly or indirectly related to R (Peter D's intro book, MASS, and Parmigiani et.al's book with a number of Bioconductor-related chapters). (one could argue that 8 of 9 could use it -- it would be interesting if var der Laan / Robins had an associated software toolkit, but that would be quite a project). best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini rossini at u.washington.edu http://www.analytics.washington.edu/ Biomedical and Health Informatics University of Washington Biostatistics, SCHARP/HVTN Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center UW : FAX=206-543-3461 | moving soon to a permanent office FHCRC: 206-667-7025 FAX=206-667-4812 | Voicemail is pretty sketchy/use Email CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message and any attachme...{{dropped}}