Hi All, This week SPSS Inc. announced version 18, which has some very interesting enhancements regarding R. It will now ship with R on the DVD, along with the PASW Statistics-R Integration Package. Previously this required a download of R, and of the Integration Package. This may be the first time a vendor shipped R itself along with what may be viewed as a competitor to R. The second thing they announced is quite intriguing. PASW Statistics Developer is like PASW (SPSS) Statistics Base, along with R and Python, but with the statistics procedures stripped out. This will allow people to use the PASW Statistics graphical user interface to create menus and dialog boxes for R and Python programs. The extensions people write will be shared on http://www.spss.com/devcentral/. Such extensions could be used by the non-Developer version of PASW Statistics too. I think this is a very good thing for both R and SPSS Inc. It adds to R?s universality and expands PASW Statistics capabilities at the same time. Cheers, Bob Muenchen http://RforSASandSPSSusers.com