Hi I hope that I don't break any rules - I just want to announce that we started a mailing list for R in Cape Town. The address is: https://cbio.uct.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/sabior The basic idea of the mailing list is to bring R users in the region around Cape Town and in South Africa closer together and probably arrange informal gettogethers. We also try to provide a forum to discuss issues concerning R in Biology and distribute announcements of R courses and similar events in the Cape Town area. We definitely do not want to establish an alternative forum to the official R lists and do not want to draw subscribers away from them - it is a huge advantage that one large list provides the main forum to get help. I hope that the new mailing list will be a useful medium to spread the word and information about R in South Africa, Rainer -- Rainer.Krug at uct.ac.za Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Leslie Hill Institute for Plant Conservation University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7701 South Africa