The contrast and desirability packages are available for all platforms at cran.r-project.org (and coming soon to a mirror near you). The contrast package extends Frank Harrell's contrast.Design function for one degree of freedom contrasts of model parameters to other types of models, such as lm, glm, lme, gls and geese models. Fold-changes are also calculated for all contrasts. There is a package vignette that shows examples for a basic two-way layout and a design with repeated measures. The desirability package contains S3 classes for multivariate optimization using the desirability function approach of Harrington (1965) using the functional forms described by Derringer and Suich (1980). There are functions for maximization, minimization, hitting a target, box constraints and a function for creating arbitrarily shaped desirability equations. There is also a package vignette that shows an example of a multi-response surface experiment. Please send me emails for suggestions and bug fixes at max.kuhn at pfizer.com. Max ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LEGAL NOTICE\ Unless expressly stated otherwise, this messag...{{dropped}} _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages