Dear R users, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Discovery version of ASREML is now free (as in beer, not speech) for people in academia (excluding commercial use) and for people in developing nations. This applies to both the stand-alone ASREML and the R package ASREML-R. ASREML has long been used in the plant and animal sciences where it excels at fitting mixed models with complex variance structures to large datasets. It will serve equally well as a general-purpose mixed-modelling software package. Learn more at http://www.vsni.co.uk/software/asreml-discovery/ (Inquiries may be delayed due to Easter weekend.) Kevin Wright [[alternative HTML version deleted]]