in 2007 we will publish seven volumes of JSS (four of them special volumes). Volume 18 Spectroscopy and Chemometrics in R Volume 19 regular Volume 20 Psychometrics in R Volume 21 regular Volume 22 Ecology and Ecological Modeling in R Volume 23 is being started, it is a regular volume, and may not fill up completely. Volume 24 is 'Statistical Modeling of Social Networks with "statnet"' -- it is not a Foometrics volume but can serve as another model for special volumes. Another Foometrics volume (Political Methodology in R, guest editors Altman and Jackman) will be out early 2008. If you have suggestions about special volumes of either type ("Foometrics with R" or "Statistical modeling of X with R/Stata/SAS/... package Y" or "Statistical modeling of X with R/Stata/SAS/...") drop me an email. For a special volume we need a guest editor and 6-10 submissions. I sincerely hope that the year 2007 was a local maximum and that we will return to four or five volumes per year in 2008. ==Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Director: UCLA Center for Environmental Statistics (CES); 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@stat.ucla.edu .mac: jdeleeuw +++ skype: j_deleeuw +++ homepage: http://www.cuddyvalley.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]