There are some nice new R contributions in the latest volume of JSS http://www.jstatsoft.org The most recent one (and a good model for similar comparative work) is Authors: Alexandros Karatzoglou and David Meyer and Kurt Hornik Title: Support Vector Machines in R Reference: Volume 15, 2006, Issue 9 Acquire: paper [0] browse files [0] Dates: submitted: 2005-10-24 accepted: 2006-04-06 If you want to be kept abreast of whatever is published, subscribe to jss-announce at http://lists.stat.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/jss-announce ==Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software US mail: 8125 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