http://www.jstatsoft.org JSS is now up to Volume 11. This year is the first multi-volume year, with three volumes so far. JSS now has its own ISSN number and its own CODEC. A JSS LaTeX format will become available soon. JSS is aiming to become an (electronic) ASA journal, independent of JCGS, soon. It's contents, including back issues, will also soon be in CIS. Recent volumes of JSS illustrate the fact that R is, indeed, the lingua franca of computational statistics. Many CRAN packages have their corresponding JSS articles. And I hope more package authors will follow. As far as I am concerned it is perfectly alright to publish something both in R News and in JSS. JSS volumes now have four different "departments". One is "Articles", which has the main contributions (technique + manual + software). The second is "Code Snippets", which are shorter and have less emphasis on statistics and more on software. The third is "Software Reviews", which reviews mostly commercial programs and packages (for which we do not have the code). Finally, there are "Book Reviews", reviewing books on statistical software, computational statistics, optimization, Monte Carlo, and numerical linear algebra. R programmers are also encouraged to contribute "Code Snippets". We have no clear author guidelines for these snippets yet, but we are hoping that "short" and "emphasis on software" is clear enough for now, and that we will converge to something more standardized. ==Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software US mail: 8130 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au