Dr. Paul Murrell will present his course "Introduction to R - Data Handling" online at statistics.com Sept. 28 - Oct. 26. Participants can ask questions and exchange comments with Dr. Murrell via a private discussion board throughout the period. This course will provide an easy introduction to R and its use in organizing and exploring data. Once you've completed this course you'll be able to enter, save, retrieve, summarize and display data using R. Dr. Murrell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Statistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Paul has been a member of the core development team for R since 1999, with a focus on the graphics system in R. He is the past Chair of the Section for Statistical Graphics of the American Statistical Association. He has recently served as Editor-in-Chief of "R News," the newsletter of the R Project, and is an Associate Editor for "Computational Statistics" and "The Journal of Statistical Software." The course will require about 10-15 hours per week and there are no set hours when you must be online. Details and registration at http://www.statistics.com/ourcourses/R/ Peter Bruce courses at statistics.com