The homals package will eventually be replaced by the gifi package, which is in a preliminary version at http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/240/code/gifi-0.0.1.tar.gz It has many more things than the homals package on CRAN, but it is not ready for CRAN yet (will take quite a while). Besides homals (multiple correspondence analysis with rank and additivity constraints, can do regression, canonical analysis, principal component analysis with optimal scaling of the variables, and so on), it has -- interactive coding -- fuzzy coding using B splines -- maximizing arbitrary convex aspects of correlation matrices -- approximating Benz??cri distances -- projection plots from homals -- simple correspondence analysis with many plot options -- lineals program -- coding dataframes as indicator matrices -- making profile frequencies from data frames More will be added. I will also recode most of the MCA stuff using as the basic data structure a list of possibly fuzzy indicators, coded as sparse matrices. Install into R by saying R CMD INSTALL gifi-0.0.1.tar.gz from the command line. ==Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished 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 .mac: jdeleeuw ++++++ aim: deleeuwjan ++++++ skype: j_deleeuw homepages: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ++++++ http://www.cuddyvalley.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au